Send an {OTA} command to the RemoteSign that matches the connected screen as follows:
- {OTA}SSD1306-32x128.vL.bin
- {OTA}SSD1306-64x128.vL.bin
- {OTA}SSD1306-40x72.vL.bin
- {OTA}SSD1322.vL.bin
- {OTA}SH1107-128x128.vL.bin
- {OTA}NoScreen.vL.bin
The 'L' stands for the latest version.
See here for how to manually send a command from RemoteSign Windows.
An {OTA} command can also be sent to it from RemoteSign Sequencer
You can also use the Load RemoteSign ESP feature in RemoteSign Sequencer 3.9 to load software onto a board connected through a USB port. To force a download of the latest version, delete the *.bin files in the ESP subfolder of RemoteSign Sequencer.
Version history
2024-02-11 V 3.7.9
- Fixed a bug that prevented scrolling text from displaying properly on screens wider than 254 pixels.
2023-11-11 V 3.7.8
- Fixed a bug that prevented channels > 5 from being subscribed to.
2023-11-01 V 3.7.7
- Build with latest version of supporting libraries U8g2 (2.34.22) and Wi-Fi manager (2.0.16)
2023-10-26 V3.7.6
Fixes
- Fix a bug when a signal starts a flashing light pattern and pin logic is inverted, light would not start flashing unless it was already on.
2023-08-12 V3.7.5
Fixes
- Fix a bug that caused the ESP to crash when sent a {SERVO} pendulum command with a pendulum length less than 100cm
2023-08-07 V3.7.4
New features
- Support for servo and stepper motors added. See new {DCH} options and {SERVO} and {STEPPER} commands
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented {LM} command from turning an output on using ON or TOGGLE after a {LM} transition command had been performed. Bug probably introduced in version 3.5.34
2023-03-06 V3.7.2
New features
- Added support for SH1107 128x128 pixel OLED screen. Use {OTA} command to load SH1107-128x128.vL.bin
2023-03-06 V3.7.1
New features
- Added support for SSD1306 0.41" 40x72 pixel OLED screen. Use {OTA} command to load SSD1306-40x72.vL.bin
2023-03-06 V3.7
New features
- Added support for stepper motor channels and the new {STEPPER} command to control stepper motors. This functionality has been tested with the common 28BYJ-48 stepper motor.
2023-01-12 V3.6.51
New features
- Added support for DS18B20 temperature sensors. See defining sensor channels using the {DCH} command for how to create a sensor channel using RemoteSign Sequencer.
2023-01-09 V3.6.27
New features
- The {CHSUB} command can now be used to subscribe to the sensor channel. Note, previously sensors were automatically subscribed to all connections. This change will reduce traffic and commands to be processed when unneeded.
- Sensor and time values can be dynamically inserted into commands which have text components using \Sn\ and \T+00\. This allows recorded scripts to be able to report the current sensor state or time.
2022-12-21 V3.6.21
New features
- Added support for new {CHSUB} and {CHSTATE} commands. These allow a device to subscribe to changes that occur to a channel. Channels that can be subscribed are Monochrome Lights, Color Lights and Signals. Previously, signal changes resulted in a broadcast to all connection with a {SIG} command, but these are now included in the {CHSTATE} command instead, and only sent to devices that have subscribed.
- RemoteSign ESP will look for a script called PRENET before it connects to Wi-Fi and if it finds such a script, will run it. This is useful for doing things such as turning on lights right away on startup, without waiting for it to sign onto Wi-Fi. Commands in PRENET are limited to non-networking commands and commands without any sort of delay (such as light transitions).
- {LOG} command implemented, content is sent to Serial monitor
Fix
- Fixed support for inverted logic pins defined for signals.
- Better management of connections that have been broken off. When a new connection request comes in, any slot with a broken connection is reused.
2022-12-14 V3.6.16
New feature
- Added directive support for temperature and voltage sensors. This allows a RemoteSign ESP to run a local script based on the value of these sensors falling within multiple ranges. The local script can switch outputs, send messages or reach out and do web requests (using the {HTTP} command), updated screens etc. making this a very powerful device that can run autonomously.
2022-12-10 V3.6.15
New feature
- Added support for the {HTTP} command. This allow you to trigger web requests in ifttt
2022-11-15 V3.6.3
New feature
- Added mSecs light pattern to {LM} and {LC} commands
- Added Lighthouse light pattern to {LM} command
- Improved random flicker of fluorescent lights
2022-06-20
New feature
- Added support for temperature sensors
2022-06-06 v3.5.35
New feature
- Network host name can be customized by sending a HOST token using the {TOKEN} command
Improvements
- Default host names now 'remotesign-xxxx', where xxxx are the last 4 characters of the MAC address
2022-06-05 v3.5.34
Fix
- Corrected a problem that was preventing devices with a screen from using the screen!
2022-01-06 v3.5.26
New feature
- Provided a firmware version that has no screen software. This ensure that pins D1 and D2 are totally freed up for use with other channels.
- Added the ability to invert the logic of pin outputs (for use with relays that don't offer a NC option)
Improvements
- Improved the clearing of pins used by built-in channels before being used by a custom channel.
2021-12-31 v3.5.25
New feature
- Implemented the color light command {LC} allowing RGB color channels to handle a long list of lighting effects.
2021-09-10 v3.5
New feature
- Added the ability to define channels in RemoteSign ESP devices using registered copies of RemoteSign Sequencer. Update RemoteSign ESP devices to version 3.5 and register it to gain the capability on the ESP side.
2020-10-25 v3.0.0:38
New features
- Added the ability to record, and play back scripts using local memory storage on the ESP processor. This allow complete unattended display of content, without any external controlling software. This includes adding support for the following commands:
- {RECORD}
- {APPEND}
- {RUNSCRIPT}
- {SCR?}
- {SCR}
- {DIR}
- The built-in LED on the processor will flash when recording is in progress.
- Added support for a new command {NTP} that enabled the RemoteSign ESP to fetch the current time from the internet. DST rules for US, Europe, New Zealand and Australia are also supported.
- Added the ability to set the background color to a non-black color with the enhanced {CLEAR} command. (You get the color of the monochrome screen if the background color is closer to white than black.)
- Added support for resolving time macros so that scripts can resolve them at run-time.
- Improved color selection (black or 'white') for {TEXT} and {ROW} commands.
- The built-in LED on the processor will flash rapidly when it is connecting to a Wi-Fi network.
- If a script file named AUTORUN is present, it will be run after a short delay once the ESP connects to Wi-Fi.
- If a script file has been run, the screen is no longer cleared when other software disconnects from the ESP. This allows the screen to remain undisturbed for script use.
- Increased the number of {TEXT} areas to 400
- Added support for color settings of analog clock; face color, tick color and hand color.
- Improved clock display that was truncating a pixel at the 9 o'clock position of the analog clock.
Changes
- The OTA firmware file names were changed (as above) so that one can load v2 or v3 binaries.
2020-01-20 v1.3.3:2020012001
Fix
- Non-animated test that was shorter than the previous text was not erasing the previous text properly. (Bug was introduced in 1.3.2)
2020-01-17 v1.3.2:2020011710
Enhancements
- Animated rows will actually flip through characters to get to the desired text
- Flip characters that lie outside the specifies mask will eventually resolve to the desired character instead of spinning forever.
- Special characters outside of ISO-8859-1 will downgrade to a similar character or be replaced with a space. This provides a better result due to the font limitations of the screen library.
2020-01-09 v1.2.5:2020010902
Enhancements
- Selected a bold font for larger fonts
2020-01-07 v1.2.4:2020010701
Enhancements
- Adjusted the size of 150% fonts
Fix
- Fixed alignment of {TEXT} areas larger than 100%
2020-01-01 v1.2.4:2020010101
Enhancement
- Implemented a new command {SCREENLIMITS} to enable easy measurement of actual display area on small OLED screens
2019-09-09 v1.2.1:2019091909
Fix
- Right aligned{TEXT} areas that are not 100% in size will now clear and display new text better.
2019-09-17 v1.2.1:2019091701
Enhancement
- {TEXT} and {ROW}commands now support foreground and background colors. If the foreground color value is less than the background, then the text is displayed in reverse video.
2019-09-15 v1.2.1:2019091508
Enhancements
- Allow scrolling text in any row. Scrolling text will avoid any clock that is displaying
- Support new {CLOCK} option of no clock
- Very long {TEXT} commands and {SCROLL} commands will not wrap to left side of screen
- Text alignment option of {TEXT} command is now supported
- Screen is cleared when connection occurs with a default of 4 rows.
2019-08-18 v1.1.1:2019081801
Enhancements
- Three pins (D5-D7) can be used as sensor inputs (S1-S3). (See Windows 2.5.2 version history for how they can be used.)
- Implemented {AR?} and {DR?} commands to perform analog and digital reads of the ESP8266 pins.
- Scroll text sent again will no longer speed up the text.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the clock from advancing.
2019-04-18 v1.0
Initial release of RemoteSign ESP
RemoteSign Loader and binary files for ESP8266 NodeMCU provided for:
- 0.96" OLED 64x128
- NewHAven OLED 64x256
