nspanel-lovelace-ui/docs/prepare_nspanel.md

Flash Tasmota to your NSPanel

You need to connect to your nspanel via serial and flash tasmota tasmota32-nspanel.bin to your NSPanel. You can use the Tasmota Web Installer to do so. Tasmota Web Installer

Checkout Blakadders Template Repo for more information on flashing, do not use the autoexec.be from this page. NSPanel Page of the Tasmota Template Repository

If you prefer EspHome over Tasmota, you can use this thrid party esphome component, which is replacing tasmota and the berry driver of this project. ESPHome component

Configure Tasmota Template for NSPanel

Configure the NSPanel template for Tasmota. (Go to Configuration and Configure Other and paste the template there, make sure to tick the activate checkbox)

You can use the following template or copy the one on the Tasmota Template Repo Site.

{"NAME":"NSPanel","GPIO":[0,0,0,0,3872,0,0,0,0,0,32,0,0,0,0,225,0,480,224,1,0,0,0,33,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,4736,0],"FLAG":0,"BASE":1,"CMND":"ADCParam 2,11200,10000,3950 | Sleep 0 | BuzzerPWM 1"}

After a reboot of tasmota your screen will light up with the stock display firmware.

Upload Berry Driver to Tasmota

1. Download the autoexec.be from the repository: Berry Driver

2. Go to Consoles > Manage File System in Tasmota and upload the previously downloaded file.

3. Restart your NSPanel

Flash Firmware to Nextion Screen

Due the limitations of Berry, it's not possible to download the tft file directly from github, so I'm also renting a small server where you can download the file via HTTP.

Use the one following commands in the tasmota console (not berry console) to flash the latest release from this repository:

EU Version: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lui-release.tft

US Version Portrait: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lui-us-p-release.tft

US Version Landscape: FlashNextion http://nspanel.pky.eu/lui-us-l-release.tft

After sending the command, the screen should show a progress bar. The flashing progress takes around 5 minutes.

⚠️: If you are getting an error message with [bytes('8080808080808080808080000 please try to downgrade tasmota to 12.2.0 (http://ota.tasmota.com/tasmota32/release-12.2.0/tasmota32-nspanel.bin) and leave a comment on https://github.com/joBr99/nspanel-lovelace-ui/issues/601

Note: For the US Version Users - keep in mind that you need to add the model config option to your apps.yaml later, more details on config overview page

Alternatively you can use your own webserver or the one build into HomeAssistant:

Upload the nspanel.tft from the lastest release to a Webserver (for example www folder of Home Assistant) and execute the following command in Tasmota Console. (Development Version: [tft file from HMI folder](HMI/nspanel.tft))

Webserver must be HTTP, HTTPS is not supported, due to limitations of berry lang on tasmota

FlashNextion http://ip-address-of-your-homeassistant:8123/local/nspanel.tft