local display using wired communication, buttons, tft.

[jschoch]

What are your UI plans for a wider release? I suppose my question is, will it be possible to port this over to a local display using wired communication, or possibly a second ESP to share the comms and processing burden and communicate locally over ESPnow or similar. I assume that once the project is complete in your eyes, the need for OTA development updates will be greatly diminished and possibly outweighed requests for a wired solution. I am not questioning your vision, just asking a question. I just saw a tft display using an ESP for the controller, and they even broke out a few IOs for you to use. That's interesting.

It is open source so if someone wants to make a frontend that has wired controls and a TFT display then I'm more than happy to help them understand how to "plug in" and to collaborate on an API to do this. This is one of the reasons the "frontend" is in a separate repo.

However, i'm not going to maintain that code and I have no interest in a TFT UI or physical buttons, been down that road and it is very rigid and inflexible. So sure it can be cone but you'll need someone who can code and who will maintain it and who also happens to pick a TFT, button layout, encoder input etc that you like.