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IoT and Touch Screens
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 6:30 pm
by dbarnes6891
I'm not new to software development but I am new to IoT and it's capabilities. I have an idea. I would like to create a UI and be able to control some digital potentiometers hooked up to a Raspberry Pi that has a touch screen attached to it using a UI I built. Is this possible? My first inclination says yes, but I haven't been able to find a straight forward answer? If I deploy a UWP app on a Pi that has a touchscreen attached to it can I interact with it in the same way one would on a phone or tablet to control those digi pots hooked up to a Pi?
Please and Thank you
Dan
Re: IoT and Touch Screens
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:13 pm
by DougieLawson
Does it have to be done with Win10IoT, because it'll be a 1,000,000,000 times easier with Raspbian.
Re: IoT and Touch Screens
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 2:46 am
by dbarnes6891
Not necessarily. What platform do you reccomend? Obviously Raspbian, but what do you use for the UI and "back end?". Would you happen to be aware of any tutorials? The reason I ask about IoT is I know the visual studio platform well. But I am open to other options.
Re: IoT and Touch Screens
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 7:34 am
by ghans
Qt5 (C++) or Kivy(Python) would be options on Raspbian.
ghans
Re: IoT and Touch Screens
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 11:07 am
by dbarnes6891
ghans wrote:Qt5 (C++) or Kivy(Python) would be options on Raspbian.
ghans
Very cool. Thanks for the reply I will look into that.
Re: IoT and Touch Screens
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:46 pm
by skipfire
The official 7" touchscreen works perfectly with Windows IoT and I have multiple of them running various C# UWP/IoT projects with UIs. If you are looking at one of the little touch screens (2.5", 3.5" types) I have seen plenty saying it is possible to draw on the screen, but not your nice XAML form - so if that is your case I say good luck.