Degrees Symbol for K3NG Rotator Controller Nextion

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This video shows how you can get the degrees symbol ° on the K3NG Rotator Controller's Nextion touchscreen.

It's a simple matter of editing four lines of code in the main .ino file.

Get you Arduino programming leads out!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgwZdDvqZSc

Cheers,

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Following on from the previous 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, that the character encoding type is also set to the corresponding encoding of iso-8859-1.

Also, the degree symbol in the vSS1 Status string wasn’t quite right.

eg: when parking:

This is easily fixed by editing line #211 in rotator_settings.h.

Change the xDF to xB0 (bravo zero).

NextionDegreesvSS1.PNG (10.35 KiB) Viewed 538 times

And the degree symbol will be correctly displayed, as such:

The K3NG rotator controller is a fantastic project for anyone looking to automatically control their rotators/positioners (ie; for satellites, EME), and offers many human interface options, such as a touch screen, LCDs and switches, etc.