Native LVGL UI for color radios on EdgeTX 2.11.7+ - #546
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ui.lua held the state machine, the MSP pump, byte packing, the key ladder, scrolling and every lcd.* call in one file, so a second backend would have had to fork all of it. controller.lua now owns everything a colour radio would do identically -- page load and unload, request/reply, save and retry, which popup entries exist, field encoding -- and ui.lua is left owning pixels and keys, reaching the rest through intents. Two pieces of state that shared one variable had to come apart: editing belongs to the renderer, saving does not. Page invalidation used to reset both at once, so the renderer now drops edit mode explicitly when the page goes away. loader.lua replaces the assert(loadScript(...)) + collectgarbage() pair repeated at every load site, and names the file when a load fails instead of raising "assertion failed!". All eight screens of a simulator walk -- main menu, a page, the PIDs grid, focus moved, edit mode, the popup menu, back out -- are byte-identical to the commit before. Saving, the acc-cal confirmation and cancelling out of it were checked separately; the walk does not reach them.
ui.lua becomes ui/lcd.lua and returns a table with render() instead of a
bare function -- that table is the seam a second renderer plugs into.
bf.lua moves module loading out of chunk scope into init(), so it
happens once the tool is already on screen rather than while it is
opening, and returns { init, run }. run() forwards to whichever renderer
init() picked; there is one today.
The eight B&W screens of the simulator walk are byte-identical to the
commit before.
Without a flight controller the simulator never leaves "Waiting for connection", so nothing past the splash can be exercised -- no page, no field, no edit, no save. SCRIPTS/BFSimulator patches mspSendRequest, mspPollReply, mspProcessTxQ and getRSSI: one layer above the transport, so MSP/common.lua's chunking and CRC are bypassed rather than re-implemented underneath. It applies in two passes, because a simulated colour radio has no telemetry module bound and protocols.lua's probe would die on "Telemetry protocol not supported!" before MSP ever mattered: the telemetry push and getRSSI go in before protocols.lua loads, the MSP request globals after MSP/common.lua has finished defining the ones they replace. bf.lua loads it only when getVersion() reports the simulator, so a radio never runs any of it.
ui/lvgl.lua drives colour radios on EdgeTX 2.11.4 or later through lvgl.page and lvgl.setting, off the same controller and the same page files. bf.lua probes for lvgl.PERCENT_SIZE -- 2.11.4, the release that also brought the header navigation buttons and the layout constants this is built on -- and anything below it keeps ui/lcd.lua unchanged. Rows come out of the coordinates the pages already carry: fields sharing a y are one line, and a label on that line names it. So the grid pages render as one setting per axis with its editors side by side, without a single page file knowing this renderer exists, and a later declarative page format can replace the coordinates without touching it. Field kind picks the widget -- dense value table to a choice (rebased, because every table here starts at f.min and lvgl.choice is 1-based), 0/1 to a toggle, read-only or sparse to a bound label, the rest to a number editor. Empty ranges fall back to a label: profiles.lua derives its max from a count the FC sends, so a reply that has not arrived yet would otherwise build a dropdown with nothing in it. Rebuilds are confined to page changes, values arriving for the first time (numberEdit does not poll its getter on this firmware, so a row built before the reply would read 0 for ever), and postEdit, which on rates.lua rewrites min, max and scale across nine fields at once. Anything else would drop focus mid-edit. The popup menu becomes a page, opened from a "Menu" row as well as the header button -- the firmware maps no key to that button, and "save page" lives behind it, so without the row a colour radio would need a touchscreen to save. Controller gains setFieldValue: widgets hand over an absolute value where keys handed over a direction. incFieldValue now goes through it, which is why the B&W screens can still be compared: the eight B&W simulator screens are byte-identical to the commit before, and forcing useLvgl false on a TX16S reproduces the pre-LVGL colour baseline hash-for-hash at every step the two walks share.
Buttons and settings sat flush against the screen edge and against each other. A flex box pads itself by PAD_OUTLINE and the theme draws the scroll bar inside that padding, so a full-width child has nothing left for either. Every view's body now carries explicit border padding and a real gap between rows. A grid row put its editors after a half-width title and let each size itself, and an unsized numberEdit takes a fixed EDIT_FLD_WIDTH no matter how many share the line -- so the third PID column started past the right edge. Grid rows keep a quarter of the line for the title and split the rest evenly, and the column headers above them are laid out in those same columns instead of being concatenated into one label. Header labels map to columns by x, which is also what folds rates.lua's two header lines into one "RC Rate" / "Super Rate" / "RC Expo". One press of PAGE stepped two pages. WidgetPage::onEvent queues the event for the script and then bubbles it to StandaloneLuaWindow::onEvent, which queues it again, and the Lua event buffer hands the copies out one per frame. killEvents cannot help -- it clears the key state, not the buffer -- so an event identical to the frame before is ignored. The mock answered MSP_STATUS_EX with zeros, and profiles.lua takes its PID-profile range from the count in that reply rather than from the page file, so "PID Profile" came up as a read-only value instead of a picker. It reports three profiles now, as a stock target does. Page geometry and the gx12 screens are unchanged: none of this reaches the lcd renderer.
The "Menu" row on every colour page existed because the header's menu
button is compiled under HARDWARE_TOUCH and no key reaches it, so without
the row "save page" was unreachable on a rotary. It was a way out of that
corner, not a design: B&W has no such row, and the row was the first thing
the rotary landed on, ahead of the settings.
What was behind it was two unrelated things. "save page" and "reload"
belong to the open page; reboot, acc cal, vtx tables and board info belong
to the flight controller and never touch it. So they split:
* Save page is the last row of every settings page, after the settings,
which is where a colour radio puts the control that submits a form. It
goes inactive while a save is in flight.
* The flight controller actions are listed on the main menu under a
"Flight Controller" heading, which is one rotary step from the first
entry if you turn the wrong way, and needs no chord to find.
* Reload has no button. Leaving a page and coming back re-reads it from
the FC, which is what reload did.
The menu view, its return-to-view bookkeeping and the pendingView
indirection all go with it. Pages and confirmations no longer set
backButton, so the top-left header tile is back rather than a menu button
with nothing behind it.
Controller.menuActions is unchanged in content and order -- the lcd
renderer's popup is what it was, byte for byte, and the gx12 screens
including the popup menu confirm it. It is now composed from
Controller.fcActions, which the LVGL renderer reads on its own. Actions
carry both a short `t` for a 128x64 screen and a spelled-out `title` for a
screen with room.
Separators are spacer boxes, not hlines: a line is a simple widget rather
than a window, never decodes PERCENT_SIZE, and a full-width one takes the
sentinel literally and flattens the column it is in.
Page geometry and the gx12 screens are unchanged; the colour walk covers
the FC actions, a confirmation reached from the main menu, and a save
round trip.
Every view built a box inside lvgl.page to hold its rows, but the page already gives you a body that scrolls and takes a flex layout, so the box was a second scroll container nested in the first, with its own scroll bar and its own idea of where the top is. Views set backButton again: without it there is no exit cross at all, and the only way out by touch is the top-left header tile, which looks like the EdgeTX logo and reads like one. An inert logo costs a touch user nothing; an invisible exit costs them the way out. None of the views set menu, and pcallSimpleFunc returns early on LUA_REFNIL, so the tile stays a no-op rather than an error.
numberEdit holds an integer, so handing it the scaled value floored RC Rate 1.20 to "1" and Expo 0.59 to "0". The widget now works in the field's raw units -- min, max and the value are the bytes the FC sent -- with a display handler formatting raw/scale, so byte 120 reads "1.20" and ACTUAL's centre sensitivity byte 7 reads "70". This also makes one rotary detent one raw step, the field's actual resolution. The simulator mock answers MSP_RC_TUNING with the power-on defaults of a 4.5 target instead of zeros, byte for byte as msp.c serialises them, so the rates screens exercise scales in both directions -- an all-zero reply is how this flooring had gone unseen.
A page was built the moment its file loaded and rebuilt whole when the values arrived, and both halves showed: profiles' PID field opened as a toggle and flashed into a dropdown once postLoad widened its range, and every rebuild recreated the lvgl.page -- the firmware creates the nav buttons a frame after the page, and until the first focus move the header's invisible menu button wears the focus ring as a white pill over the EdgeTX logo. Rows are now built only from arrived values, under a shell that stands for the whole visit: page turns and arriving values swap just the rows, cleared one frame and refilled the next, because the firmware sweeps a cleared object's child refs after run() returns. While the next page loads, the outgoing rows stay up, greyed, with the subtitle reading Loading... A read the FC refuses now clears Page.read, which stops the retry loop and lets the N/A notice actually build. Choice and toggle edits run postEdit, as the lcd renderer always has, so changing the rates type reruns updateRatesType and the rows come back with the new ratetable's labels and scales. And the nav arrows stay enabled while a save is in flight, the press no-oping instead: disabling them mid-save wedges the firmware's encoder group, after which no rotary or key input ever lands again. The mock notes that ~45 frames of latency stretches the loading states out to visible length.
pos_osd's element selector rewrites the page from an upd hook: setFieldValue runs it, and it renames the row's label and refills the position and profile fields under it. The values were always going to be fine -- toggles and choices re-read their getters every frame, and numberEdit does too on firmware with the polling patch -- but the row title was a string copied at build, so the screen kept reading rssi_pos whatever the selector said. Titles are functions now, which the firmware re-reads every frame, and nothing needs rebuilding: the widgets watch their fields through the closures they were built with. The cached simulator image predates the polling patch, so there the position digits catch up when their editor opens. The mock reports OSD_SD, which is what puts OSD Elements on the menu, and answers MSP_OSD_CONFIG with a block long enough for every element the page knows -- two bytes each up to values[164], where the generic 128 zeros would feed splitVal a nil -- with a few elements' positions and profile bits distinct, so moving the selector visibly changes every widget under it.
README gains the colour controls, which differ enough to need saying: there is no long-press function menu, "save page" is the last row of every settings page, and the flight controller actions live on the main menu instead. The screenshots are simulator captures at 480x272 and 128x64, which is also what makes them reproducible.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to On supported color radios, multi-byte settings may be serialized incorrectly, out-of-range controller values may produce invalid choices, and the retained Save action may submit a page before its values arrive. These issues could corrupt settings or save incomplete data, so the PR needs explicit fixes or owner acceptance before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Radio
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Radio->>bfLua: start tool
bfLua->>UIrender: initialise selected renderer
Radio->>UIrender: send navigation or edit event
UIrender->>Controller: process event
Controller->>Betaflight: send MSP request
Betaflight-->>Controller: return page or action reply
Controller-->>UIrender: update state and values
UIrender-->>Radio: draw updated interface
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 62-65: Update the VTX table download instructions near the
existing function-menu reference to direct EdgeTX 2.11.4 and newer users to the
Flight Controller action on the main menu, while retaining the function-menu
instruction for older firmware and monochrome radios.
In `@src/SCRIPTS/BF/controller.lua`:
- Around line 303-305: Update the byte-packing assignment in the values loop to
mask the right-shifted result to its low 8 bits before storing it in
Page.values. Preserve the existing scaling, rounding, and per-byte shift
behavior.
In `@src/SCRIPTS/BF/ui/lvgl.lua`:
- Around line 128-158: Clamp the index returned by addChoice’s get function to
the valid 1 through `#values` range, while preserving the existing base-offset
mapping for in-range f.value values. Use the default/base value when f.value is
absent, and ensure out-of-range controller values resolve to a valid choice
entry.
- Around line 211-223: Raise the documented minimum EdgeTX version to 2.11.5,
since the numberEdit.edited callback used by the edited handler is unavailable
in 2.11.4 and dependent ranges remain stale there. Update the relevant version
requirement documentation without changing the existing
Controller.setFieldValue, Controller.postEdit, or bodyStale logic.
In `@src/SCRIPTS/BFSimulator/bfsimulator.lua`:
- Around line 205-228: Update mspSendRequest and the pending-request handling to
retain each successful write payload under its corresponding read command,
rather than discarding _payload. Ensure mspPollReply returns the stored settings
payload for reloads while preserving canned replies where applicable and the
existing request-latency behavior.
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A save ended in Controller.reload(), which drops the Page so the next frame re-runs the page script. That builds a fresh set of labels and fields, and the colour renderer's widgets are bound to the ones they were built from, so the only thing it could do was clear the body and fill it again: a blink through an empty screen, and the focus ring gone, every time anything was saved. Saves now end in refreshValues(), which keeps the page and re-reads only its values, into the tables that are already on screen. The renderer swaps rows on Controller.valuesRev, which is bumped only by a reply that moves what the fields show -- so the usual answer to a save, the values that were just sent, costs nothing at all. A flight controller that clamps what it was given still bumps it and still gets the rows rebuilt. A reboot still starts over from the page file. The comparison has to happen after postLoad rather than field by field as the values are unpacked: pos_osd declares vals that the generic loop reads nonsense out of and postLoad then replaces with the element the user is on, so measured any earlier every reply looks like a change. The Save button also stopped going inactive while the save is in flight. `active` takes a widget out of the encoder focus group and the ring does not come back to it afterwards, and since that is the button every save is made from, it was losing the focus on its own -- ahead of any rebuild. A second press is refused inside the handler instead, which is how the header arrows already hold still for the same reason. B&W is unchanged: a save with the cursor parked mid-page, and again with the page scrolled, is byte-identical across this commit.
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In `@src/SCRIPTS/BF/controller.lua`:
- Around line 396-405: Update mspPollReply() handling for Page.write and
uiMsp.eepromWrite to check err before entering the success branches. When err is
set, keep Controller.saving active for Controller.tickSaving() to retry and skip
EEPROM writes, reboot handling, and Controller.refreshValues(); only complete
the save transaction on successful replies.
In `@src/SCRIPTS/BF/ui/lvgl.lua`:
- Around line 521-529: Update the Save page button callback in addSaveRow to
call Controller.savePage() only when Controller.Page exists, Controller.saving
is false, and pageReady(Controller.Page) returns true; otherwise keep the
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mspPollReply() always hands back a buffer, so an error reply to the settings write or the eeprom write walked the success branches: an eeprom write issued for a settings write that did not happen, or values re-read from RAM and shown as saved -- which an armed flight controller, refusing MSP_EEPROM_WRITE, turns into a save that is silently lost on power-off. Leave `saving` standing instead, so tickSaving() resends the save and gives up the same way it does when the reply never arrives at all. Proven in the simulator by temporarily patching the mock to set the MSP error flag: a refused settings write retries without ever issuing an eeprom write, a refused eeprom write shows Retrying and reloads after the retry budget, and with a stock link both the colour and B&W save walks render unchanged.
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On a color radio running EdgeTX 2.11.7 or newer, the Betaflight setup tool now
renders through the radio's own LVGL widgets - dropdowns, toggles and number
editors in a standard EdgeTX page, with prev/next navigation in the header.
Everything else is the same script: the same pages, the same settings.
Monochrome radios, and color radios on older firmware, are untouched. They
keep the exact renderer they have today.
Color screen UI decisions worth calling out:
touch-only in the firmware, so nothing essential lives behind them.
settings page, and the flight-controller actions (reboot, acc calibration,
VTX table / board info download) sit on the main menu under their own
heading.
swap in when the values arrive, and the outgoing page stays visible (greyed,
subtitle "Loading...") while the next one is in flight.
SCRIPTS/BFSimulator/is an MSP mock that only ever loads inside the EdgeTXsimulator, on a radio it is never read. It stands in for a flight controller so the whole tool - pages, edits, saves -
can be exercised and screenshotted without hardware.
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