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A Yaesu G-5500 (etc) rotator controller project based on Anthony Good’s popular K3NG rotator controller.
This project features a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller and Nextion Enhanced HMI user interface.
• Az analogue potentiometer input
• El analogue potentiometer input
• Four NO push-button switch inputs with pull-ups available
• Teensy I/O pins available via pads
• 100 x 50 mm… Read more...
Nextion firmware V2021-01-07-01 update for K3NG Rotator Controller
New:
Screen Saver Dim To percentage value is user definable on Config page.
Was previously hard-coded to 5%.
Can now be set 0 – 50%.
Fix (5.0″ issue only):
Wrong default font for navigation buttons (Clock & Grid) being set for virgin
EEPROM. Was font 4, should have been font 5
Fix:… Read more...
VK4GHZ Nextion for K3NG Rotator Controller now gets a version for the NX8048K050 5.0″ Enhanced touchscreen.
The 5.0″ screen is nice!
Below are some comparison shots along side a familiar 3.5″ Nextion.
(5.0″ screen still has protective layer on top of screen, so tends to look dull)
NX8048K035 V2021-01-06-01
First release of 5.0″ version.
• Has all features and … Read more...
Nextion firmware V2021-01-06-01 update for K3NG Rotator Controller
New:
Rotator Protocol added to Features page
GPS icon added & GPS ‘Wait’ on Features Page if GPS enabled but waiting for fix
Fix:
Toggle center button removed – Arduino code doesn’t appear to process Yaesu
commands from Nextion. Never make assumptions!
[Thanks Robert G0MYX for discovering this]
It also screwed up … Read more...
Nextion firmware V2021-01-01-01 update for K3NG Rotator Controller
New:
5.0″ version
Preset tags colour & font can now be changed
User Defined Buttons now have name tags
Initialize EEPROM button added
Toggle Center button added
Clock time now displayed on Features page
Fix:
Satellite title bar character length extended by several characters – long names were being cropped!
Never ending … Read more...
Updated 15/04/2021 – insertion point revised for v2021-04-07-01 ino file
Project Update December 2020
VK4GHZ Nextion for K3NG Rotator Controller firmware v 2020-12-17-01 update brings “User Defined Function” buttons for those wanting to experiment with triggering their own custom code.
Buttons on new Nextion page “User Defined Functions” will send upon a long touch to the MCU;
\?U1
\?U2… Read more...
Update 11-Feb-2021:
• NX8048K035 5.0″ Firmware Update
A universal rotator controller project based on Anthony Good’s popular K3NG rotator controller.
This project features a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller and Nextion Enhanced HMI with custom user interface.
• Yaesu G-800DXA (and G-1000-DXA, G-2800-DXA) azimuth rotator control
• Yaesu G-800DXA (and G-1000-DXA, G-2800-DXA) PWM speed voltage output
• Az analogue potentiometer … Read more...
A series of videos demonstrating the VK4GHZ Nextion for K3NG Rotator Controller
Part 1 – Basic Az system
Part 1 looks at a basic azimuth-only system and introduces you to some of the functionality offered.
Part 2 – Elevation
Part 2 introduced elevation functionality and adds a decimal place to Az & El readings.
Part 3 … Read more...
It’s not everyday you come across a project from somebody else that is well documented, relatively easy to pick up and work with, and, has the ability to customise it to your hearts content!
The K3NG rotator controller is one such project. Ideal for anyone wanting to interface their rotators/positioners with a PC for, say, tracking satellites and/or EME.
The … Read more...
The K3NG rotator controller is extremely well supported by the author, Anthony Good, K3NG.
Since the last bug report, one issue, easily overlooked by those not entirely familiar with the Nextion display, has been identified that can easily cause grief,
Along with creating fonts with iso-8859-1 encoding, make sure when setting up your Nextion HMI project in the Nextion Editor, … Read more...
The K3NG Rotator Controller project is aimed towards Arduino Mega 2560 or similar hardware.
Standard ADC resolution on many of the Arduino boards is 10-bit, however the Arduino Due, Zero, and MKR family and Teensy 3.x family have 12-bit ADCs.
So if you’re running this hardware, why not make use of the extra ADC resolution with four easy steps;
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