You should read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series if you haven’t already. A problem with the HUB75 display reared it’s head almost as soon as I started playing about with MQTT: occasionally the screen would flicker, only slightly, but just enough to be noticed. At this stage I was driving the HUB75 pins with my own RP2040… Read more »
The integration of my display with Home Assistant was prompted by my experiences with Tasmota, an alternate firmware for off the shelf ESP8266 and ESP32 -based devices. Essentially it allows the manufacturer supplied firmware for everything from lightbulbs to curtain motors to be replaced with an open source equivalent, often with Tasmota providing additional functionality on top of what the… Read more »
I’ve been working on this particular project for about nine months now, on and off. It’s finally at a point where I consider it complete, though there is still room for improvement and further ideas. Because I’ve been working on this for so long without documenting it here, this post is going to have to be spread over two posts… Read more »