esp_lcd driver for ILI9488 displays

This component provides an implementation of the ILI9488 LCD controller using the esp_lcd component APIs.

LCD controller	Communication interface	Component name	Link to datasheet
ILI9488	SPI or Intel 8080	esp_lcd_ili9488	Specification

Note on supported communication interfaces

When using the SPI interface it is required to use 18-bit color depth mode as below:

    const esp_lcd_panel_dev_config_t lcd_config = 
    {
    ...
        .bits_per_pixel = 18,
    ...
    };

When using the Intel 8080 (Parallel) interface the 16-bit color depth mode should be used.

Display Reset pin

If the display requires the usage of a RESET pin during the initialization process be sure to configure it as below:

    const esp_lcd_panel_dev_config_t lcd_config = 
    {
        .reset_gpio_num = CONFIG_TFT_RESET_PIN,
        ....

If the display does not require this pin set this value to GPIO_NUM_NC (-1).

Using this component in your project

This package can be added to your project in two ways:

1. Using Espressif's component service as:

dependencies:
  atanisoft/esp_lcd_ili9488: "~1.0.0"

2. Using the git repository directly:

dependencies:
  esp_lcd_ili9488:
    git: https://github.com/atanisoft/esp_lcd_ili9488.git

For more information on the usage of the idf_component.yml file please refer to Espressif's documentation.

Supported platforms

At this time testing is limited to ESP32 and ESP32-S3, other ESP32 variants should work but are not tested.

Required sdkconfig entries

This driver converts the color data from 16-bit to 18-bit as part of the draw_bitmap callback. Therefore it is required to set CONFIG_LV_COLOR_DEPTH_16=y in your sdkconfig. In the future other color depths may be supported.