# Rust M5Stack Lvgl Demo The purpose of this demo is to get lv-binding-rust (Lvgl) running on the M5Stack development board ## Development Board M5Stack Basic Development Kit V1.0 with 16M Flash ## Overview This application shows how to use lv-binding-rust crate on the M5Stack. The program displays a clock time on a blue backgound screen. The clock time is a simulated time of 21:00 to 21::59 where the seconds are incremented each second and repeats the 00-59 seconds forever. ## partition-table folder The partition-table folder contains a file called partitons.csv. This file increases the default factory/app partiton from the default of 1M to 3M. This allows us more space for our program and since the flash size is 16M this should not be a problem. This file will be called when we flash the device. ## custom-fonts folder The custom-fonts folder contains our custom fonts. The customs fonts are converted from TTF fonts using lvgl online font converter at https://lvgl.io/tools/fontconverter. I used https://ttfonts.net to find a font I liked and then downloaded the font. In the lvgl-online-font-converter I used the font name plus the font size for the name of the font. I chose Bpp of 2 bit-per-pixel and set the range of 0x30-0x3A since I only need numbers and the ":" character. After clicking on "Convert" the file will be downloaded. I placed this downloaded file (*.c) into the custom-fonts folder. Then I created a header file which has an extern to my *.c file, along with changing the ifndef and define names. To use this custom font, I added ```LVGL_FONTS_DIR = {relative = true, value = "custom-fonts"}``` to my config.toml under [env]. This allows our font to be compiled when lvgl is compiled. ## lvgl-configs folder The lvgl-configs folder holds the lv_config.h and lv_drv_conf.h files which are required by lvgl to compile. Everything in lv_drv_conf.h file is set to 0 as I am not using the lvgl drivers. I don't think I changed anything in the lv_conf.h file. ## Cargo.toml project file I added the following to the "dependencies" section. ``` esp-idf-hal = { version = "0.42.5" } esp-idf-sys = { version = "0.33.7" } cstr_core = "0.2.1" embedded-graphics-core = "0.4.0" lvgl = { version = "0.6.2", default-features = false, features = [ "embedded_graphics", "unsafe_no_autoinit", ] } lvgl-sys = { version = "0.6.2" } display-interface-spi = "0.4.1" mipidsi = "0.7.1" ``` I also included patch.crates-io section to patch lvgl and lvgl-sys ``` [patch.crates-io] lvgl = { git = "https://github.com/enelson1001/lv_binding_rust"} lvgl-sys = { git = "https://github.com/enelson1001/lv_binding_rust"} ``` ## config.toml To get lv-bindings-rust to comple and build I made the following changes to the config.toml file. ``` [build] target = "xtensa-esp32-espidf" [target.xtensa-esp32-espidf] linker = "ldproxy" # runner = "espflash --monitor" # Select this runner for espflash v1.x.x runner = "espflash flash --monitor" # Select this runner for espflash v2.x.x rustflags = [ # Extending time_t for ESP IDF 5: https://github.com/esp-rs/rust/issues/110 "--cfg", "espidf_time64", # Added the following 2 entries so lvgl will build without getting string.h file not found "--sysroot", "/home/ed/.rustup/toolchains/esp/xtensa-esp32s3-elf/esp-13.2.0_20230928/xtensa-esp-elf/xtensa-esp-elf/include", ] [unstable] build-std = ["std", "panic_abort"] [env] MCU = "esp32" # Note: this variable is not used by the pio builder (`cargo build --features pio`) ESP_IDF_VERSION = "v5.1.1" # The directory that has the lvgl config files - lv_conf.h, lv_drv_conf.h DEP_LV_CONFIG_PATH = { relative = true, value = "lvgl-configs" } # Required to make lvgl build correctly otherwise get wrong file type CROSS_COMPILE = "xtensa-esp32-elf" # Directory for custom fonts (written in C) that Lvgl can use LVGL_FONTS_DIR = {relative = true, value = "custom-fonts"} ``` ## lv-binding-rust fork I updated my fork of lv-binding-rust to include PR153 ie the changes recommended by madwizard-thomas. ## Flashing the M5Stack I used the following command to flash the M5Stack. ``` $ cargo espflash flash --partition-table=partition-table/partitions.csv --monitor ``` ## Picture of M5stack running the demo ![demo](photos/demo.jpg) # Versions ### v1.0 : - initial release