User Interface (UI) Management

Core Functions

Show Your Data / Text on Screen

The following example will show how to use incipe.onscreen() function to get the data from sensor and print on the IA Screen.

float temperature = incipe.getTemperature(); // store temperature data to a variable
float humidity = incipe.getHumidity(); // store humidity data to a variable

// incipe.onscreen(<on-screen label>, <data>);
// <data> could be in int, float or String types
incipe.onscreen("temp1", temperature); // real-time temperature shown on "temp1" label location
incipe.onscreen("humid2", humidity); // real-time humidity shown on "humid2" label location

if (incipe.getLightIntensity() > XXX){
  incipe.onscreen("light1", "Bright"); 
}
else {
  incipe.onscreen("light1", "Dark"); 
}

Control Image Element Visibility

The element on screen is set by yourself (e.g. "pop_up").

For visibility 1 means appear, 0 means hide.

incipe.vis("pop_up", 1)

UI Button Click Detection (screenReadValue)

In USART software, you need to create a variable (e.g. press) affiliated to a button.

When the button is clicked, press.val becomes 1 or True.

incipe.screenReadValue("press.val")

The following example will print hello if the button is pressed.

if(incipe.screenReadValue("press.val") == true)
{
  Serial.println("Button Clicked");
}

Advanced IA Screen Memory Write (Data Plotting)

This function can help plot useful experimental graphs on IA screen, with specific data, e.g. humidity

incipe.screenWriteValue("plot.val", incipe.getHumidity());

Control Screen Mode

This is a helper function interfacing with IA Kit embedded screen basic HMI command.

For example:

• Option 1: "dims", [0,100]

• Option 2: "sleep", [0,1]

• Option 3: "volume", [0,100]

• Option 4: "vis-name", [0,1]

More screen options coming soon!

incipe.screenMode("volume",50); // adjust screen sound to half volume.

Control Screen Brightness with Light Sensor

The following is a helper function interfacing with IA Kit embedded screen brightness.

Screen brightness is adjusted according to real-time light intensity value from sensor.

incipe.controlBrightness(incipe.getLightIntensity()); // range: 0 - 4096

Additional Information (USART)

If you want to use more customised screen features you can view the screen documentation here.

To use the extended screen features, please scroll down and find the C language code.

Change Page

For example when we are using the change page function

To use in our IA Kit, we need to add Serial2. before the function

Serial2.printf("page main\xff\xff\xff");

Beep Example

Another example would be using the beep feature. Put the following code in a for loop.

Serial2.print("beep 180\xFF\xFF\xFF");
delay(180);