nextion

What's Changed

• Refactor codebase and update dependencies by @yozik04 in https://github.com/yozik04/nextion/pull/32

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yozik04/nextion/compare/1.8.1...2.0.0

Fixed

• Current Page Number (sendme) response was not parsed correctly. Thanks @sputnik-dancarroll #25 for the fix.

Improved

• Support for async event_handler. #24 See updated example in the README.md

Improved

• Smart parsing of fixed length packets. Fixes issue with negative integers #18.

Other

• protocol.py was split into multiple files. Classes should still be available in old places.

Improved

• Compatibility with Nextion 1.61.1 (#10)
• Suppressing non critical errors during upload (#11 )

Added

• Firmware uploading console script: nextion-fw-upload
• Different character encodings #4
• Try both regular connect and connect using broadcast address
• During connect try to exit active Protocol Reparse and return to passive mode (found in spec https://nextion.tech/2017/12/08/nextion-hmi-upload-protocol-v1-1/)

Improved

• Better reconnect on timeouts

Added:

• Automatic reconnection on command timeout.
• New reconnect_attempts parameter added to Nextion constructor. If you do not want the lib to automatically reconnect set it to 1.

Changed

• Nextion.connect() does not return a boolean now. It throws an exception on failure.
• Some logging improvements.

Removed

• Removed sleep wakeup waiting. Increased IO timeout to 0.5 second to compensate that. Background picture change takes 180ms + first variable set after a wakeup takes 240ms + some buffer.

Fixed:

• Proper reading of chunked messages.

Added:

• Send bkcmd=3 after device reboot.

Added:

• timeout parameter for get/set/command methods.