// Reads a screen image off the TFT and send it to a processing client sketch // over the serial port. Use a high baud rate, e.g. for an ESP8266: // Serial.begin(921600); // At 921600 baud a 320 x 240 image with 16 bit colour transfers can be sent to the // PC client in ~1.67s and 24 bit colour in ~2.5s which is close to the theoretical // minimum transfer time. // This sketch has been created to work with the TFT_eSPI library here: // https://github.com/Bodmer/TFT_eSPI // Created by: Bodmer 27/1/17 // Updated by: Bodmer 10/3/17 // Version: 0.06 // MIT licence applies, all text above must be included in derivative works #define BAUD_RATE 250000 // Maximum Serial Monitor rate for other messages #define DUMP_BAUD_RATE 921600 // Rate used for screen dumps #define PIXEL_TIMEOUT 100 // 100ms Time-out between pixel requests #define START_TIMEOUT 10000 // 10s Maximum time to wait at start transfer #define BITS_PER_PIXEL 16 // 24 for RGB colour format, 16 for 565 colour format // Number of pixels to send in a burst (minimum of 1), no benefit above 8 // NPIXELS values and render times: 1 = 5.0s, 2 = 1.75s, 4 = 1.68s, 8 = 1.67s #define NPIXELS 8 // Must be integer division of both TFT width and TFT height // Start a screen dump server (serial or network) boolean screenServer(void) { Serial.end(); // Stop the serial port (clears buffers too) Serial.begin(DUMP_BAUD_RATE); // Force baud rate to be high delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; boolean result = serialScreenServer(); // Screenshot serial port server //boolean result = wifiScreenServer(); // Screenshot WiFi UDP port server (WIP) Serial.end(); // Stop the serial port (clears buffers too) Serial.begin(BAUD_RATE); // Return baud rate to normal delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; //Serial.println(); //if (result) Serial.println(F("Screen dump passed :-)")); //else Serial.println(F("Screen dump failed :-(")); return result; } // Screenshot serial port server (Processing sketch acts as client) boolean serialScreenServer(void) { // Precautionary receive buffer garbage flush for 50ms uint32_t clearTime = millis() + 50; while ( millis() < clearTime && Serial.read() >= 0) delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; boolean wait = true; uint32_t lastCmdTime = millis(); // Initialise start of command time-out // Wait for the starting flag with a start time-out while (wait) { delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; // Check serial buffer if (Serial.available() > 0) { // Read the command byte uint8_t cmd = Serial.read(); // If it is 'S' (start command) then clear the serial buffer for 100ms and stop waiting if ( cmd == 'S' ) { // Precautionary receive buffer garbage flush for 50ms clearTime = millis() + 50; while ( millis() < clearTime && Serial.read() >= 0) delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; wait = false; // No need to wait anymore lastCmdTime = millis(); // Set last received command time // Send screen size using a simple header with delimiters for client checks Serial.write('W'); Serial.write(tft.width() >> 8); Serial.write(tft.width() & 0xFF); Serial.write('H'); Serial.write(tft.height() >> 8); Serial.write(tft.height() & 0xFF); Serial.write('Y'); Serial.write(BITS_PER_PIXEL); Serial.write('?'); } } else { // Check for time-out if ( millis() > lastCmdTime + START_TIMEOUT) return false; } } uint8_t color[3 * NPIXELS]; // RGB and 565 format color buffer for N pixels // Send all the pixels on the whole screen for ( uint32_t y = 0; y < tft.height(); y++) { // Increment x by NPIXELS as we send NPIXELS for every byte received for ( uint32_t x = 0; x < tft.width(); x += NPIXELS) { delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; // Wait here for serial data to arrive or a time-out elapses while ( Serial.available() == 0 ) { if ( millis() > lastCmdTime + PIXEL_TIMEOUT) return false; delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; } // Serial data must be available to get here, read 1 byte and // respond with N pixels, i.e. N x 3 RGB bytes or N x 2 565 format bytes if ( Serial.read() == 'X' ) { // X command byte means abort, so clear the buffer and return clearTime = millis() + 50; while ( millis() < clearTime && Serial.read() >= 0) delay(0); // Equivalent to yield() for ESP8266; return false; } // Save arrival time of the read command (for later time-out check) lastCmdTime = millis(); #if defined BITS_PER_PIXEL && BITS_PER_PIXEL >= 24 // Fetch N RGB pixels from x,y and put in buffer tft.readRectRGB(x, y, NPIXELS, 1, color); // Send buffer to client Serial.write(color, 3 * NPIXELS); // Write all pixels in the buffer #else // Fetch N 565 format pixels from x,y and put in buffer tft.readRect(x, y, NPIXELS, 1, (uint16_t *)color); // Send buffer to client Serial.write(color, 2 * NPIXELS); // Write all pixels in the buffer #endif } } Serial.flush(); // Make sure all pixel bytes have been despatched return true; }