IoT7egment

Seven Segment Highly Visible and Stylish Display with Swapable digit to suit your color! Connects to the internet using esp8266.Can be used as a clock by default or displaying Notifications Weather and what not.

Snapshots

NTP 12Hr Clock Mode:

Connected to HOTSPOT Prompt:

NTP 24Hr Clock Mode:

Time Sync Done:

Photos dont justify the looks:

#CONFIG MENU

Expandable Menu:

Custom Pin Config:

Device Name:

ThingSpeak:

Features

• Stylish and Visible(Hence Seven Segment and not LCD)
• Compact pluggable design with multiple layers of vero
• Customizable: digits swapable to suit your color.
• ESP8266 inside.
• Least Number of pins to interface(Five-including VCC and GND)
• Digits expandable to Eight.
• Easy to use Arduino Coding : Example, Simply the statement:

Display.print("String to Display")

will display the given string in the display. If the string has more characters than the number of Digits then it will Scroll the string from Left to Right.

• By default it shows Time according to configuration (AM/PM or HOURS or DATE Day Name interval) and syncs with internet NTP.
• The time display is overridden when any other string is printed (i.e. print() function is called with instance of the class) and Time Display resumes when display is free.

Shortcomings

characters: m, w, x and any other undefined symbols will be replaced with _(underscore or dash)

To Do

• Use PROGMEM to release heap
• Integrate task handling and priority(use callback function pointers)
• Formatting into a proper library with Keywords.txt etc
• Responsive Landing Page for login and configure
• FileSystem to store config, Webpage
• Notification Display-Missed Call, Text, Email
• Weather
• Battery Low Indication etc