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
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Re: IoT and Touch Screens
Does it have to be done with Win10IoT, because it'll be a 1,000,000,000 times easier with Raspbian.
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Re: IoT and Touch Screens
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
Qt5 (C++) or Kivy(Python) would be options on Raspbian.
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Re: IoT and Touch Screens
Very cool. Thanks for the reply I will look into that.ghans wrote:Qt5 (C++) or Kivy(Python) would be options on Raspbian.
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Re: IoT and Touch Screens
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.