Smart Switch with OLED Display

Need Help With My Project
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Hello all! I have been working on a project for a while. My goal is to make a super smart switch using Blynk. I have the switch part of it (that was the easy part), but the next step is to add a display. I am using a WEMOS D1 mini lite, a relay shield, and an OLED shield.

Here is the relay shield
Here is the OLED display

I would link to the WEMOS D1 mini lite, but as I am a new user I can only share 2 links (also y’all probably know about this board anyway)

What I want is for the OLED screen to display “ON” when the relay is switched on and for it to display “OFF” when the display is switched off. I have gotten the OLED to display "ON or “OFF” simply by typing “ON” or “OFF” into display.println().

I have no idea how to do this and I would really appreciate some help.
Also I would be controling this from the Blynk app

Here is the code I’m using

Relay:

#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial


#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <BlynkSimpleEsp8266.h>


char auth[] = "################################";


char ssid[] = "#############";
char pass[] = "########";

void setup()
{Preformatted text
  Serial.begin(115200);

  Blynk.begin(auth, ssid, pass);
}

void loop()
{
  Blynk.run();
}

OLED:

#include <SPI.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include <Adafruit_SSD1306.h>


#define OLED_RESET 0  
Adafruit_SSD1306 display(OLED_RESET);

#define NUMFLAKES 10
#define XPOS 0
#define YPOS 1
#define DELTAY 2


#define LOGO16_GLCD_HEIGHT 16
#define LOGO16_GLCD_WIDTH  16


void setup()   {
  Serial.begin(9600);

 
  display.begin(SSD1306_SWITCHCAPVCC, 0x3C);  
  display.display();
  delay(2000);


  display.clearDisplay();


  display.setTextSize(3);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(45, 10);
  display.println("On");
  display.display();
  delay(2000);
  display.clearDisplay();

}


void loop() {

}
2

explanation can be found here :wink:

https://community.blynk.cc/search?q=Wemos%20D1%20Mini%20

3

Thank you, but that really doesn’t help me much :wink:. None of the topics there have anything to do with using an OLED screen, only 4 talk about relays.

4

yes but there are many examples for I2C displays

5

Hmm. I must have not done a good explaining exactly what it was that I need help with. I would like to know how to get my OLED to display “ON” or “OFF” based on the state of the relay pin. I have messed around with my code and have managed to get the display to display what I want while I can still change the state of the relay.

#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include <Adafruit_SSD1306.h>
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <BlynkSimpleEsp8266.h>
 

#define OLED_RESET 0  
Adafruit_SSD1306 display(OLED_RESET);

#define NUMFLAKES 10
#define XPOS 0
#define YPOS 1
#define DELTAY 2


#define LOGO16_GLCD_HEIGHT 16
#define LOGO16_GLCD_WIDTH  16
#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial



void setup()   {
  char auth[] = "3a5d5b84e1ac4ef48d4dbf196f03184c";
char ssid[] = "TP-LINK_2.4GHz_8D5014";
char pass[] = "Analog22";

  Serial.begin(9600);

  Blynk.begin(auth, ssid, pass);
  

 
  display.begin(SSD1306_SWITCHCAPVCC, 0x3C);  
  display.display();
  delay(2000);


  display.clearDisplay();


  display.setTextSize(3);
  display.setTextColor(WHITE);
  display.setCursor(45, 10);
  display.println("ON");
  display.display();
  delay(2000);
  display.clearDisplay();
}

void loop()
{
  Blynk.run();
}

Unfortunately, what is displayed is only affected by what I tell it to display in the code, not the state of the relay.

What I need to know is how to write the code that will update the display based on the state of the relay.

6

Perhaps spend some time reading the Documentation and looking through the Examples.

Any control widget will trigger a BLYNK_WRITE() function which in turn will run whatever OLED commands you have in it.

Searching through this forum will show this basic building block in use everywhere… Here is a bunch of other examples to learn with…

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7

Thanks for your reply! I have read through what you sent me and it was helpful, but I am still having a hard time understanding how to implement it. Any examples that you could give me that pertain specifically to what I need would be great!

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First you need to make it work without Blynk. Find a tutorial or code on how to read a relay state and write it to LCD or serial.

Then adding Blynk on top of that is a piece of cake

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Perfect! Thank you, that’s the help I was looking for