ESPHome now supports LVGL - Elecrow 5-inch ESP32 display

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All the videos I made on displays relied on a 3rd party HMI editor. They were nice to create, but how about long-term supportability? Will the programs still be available? Will the libraries be compatible? Some generate C source code and need to be tweaked and compiled - this is a barrier for many of you. And the SquareLine Studio has a lot of limitations unless you get an expensive license. So, I always thought that the best way to make displays for Home Assistant would be in ESPHome. However, the current primitive drawing functions will only allow for a very basic HMI. But this is changing now - the popular LVGL graphics library is coming to ESPHome, with a large library of useful widgets! I got a nice ESP32 5" display from Elecrow, that supports LVGL - so let's take it for the ride. The Elecrow 5" RGB display: https://www.elecrow.com/esp32-display-5-inch-hmi-display-rgb-tft-lcd-touch-screen-support-lvgl.html?idd=5 The display configuration in the ESPHome Device Repository: https://devices.esphome.io/devices/elecrow-5inch-esp32-display/ ESPHome LVGL documentation preview: https://esphome.io/components/lvgl/ YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRXa-KXbbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u1sOCfyghY 00:00 - intro 00:23 - compare to: Nextion display 01:09 - compare to: Elecrow with SquareLine Studio 02:49 - today: Elecrow with ESPHome 03:19 - display 04:16 - ESPHome configuration 09:08 - LGVL in ESPHome - documentation 10:30 - LGVL configuration 16:30 - updating the values 21:33 - touch screen