How to for using all other features of Tab5 while using Squareline

[dkroiss38]

Your code helped a lot to start using the M5stack Tab5 screen in the Squareline studio environment.
Unfortunately the code as proposed does not allow to use the M5unified library and thus all the nice additional features of the Tab5.
After some investigation, I discovered that it is very simple to unlock the power of M5unified.
In fact rather than using a specific display driver, just use the M5 display driver
Here are the steps to modify your code:

• Add the M5unified library and M5Unified.h in the main .ino code
• Delete the line with "M5GFX display" definition
• replace display with M5.Display wherever it is used
• And add:
  M5.config();
  M5.begin();
  at the beginning of the setup() routine.

This should make the trick.
This way I used the power functions to determine battery voltage, battery state and charge state.

Hope this helps other users with the Tab5 which is a nice piece of material.

[nikthefix]

@dkroiss38
Excellent ! Thanks.
At the time I uploaded my example the M5Unified lib didn't work with Tab5.
I will update the example to use it.

nik

[dkroiss38]

Yes I did the same and it did not work with M5Unified. The reason is that two display drivers were trying to access the screen. The trick is just to use the M5GFX/Unified screen driver and all should be ok.