What is Nextion Display?

Nextion is a cost effective HMI Display with TFT Touchscreen and Serial interface. Using Nextion Editor you can design an interface on your PC you can easily make text boxes, buttons, sliders, guages, progress bars etc without much hassle.

And most importantly the serial (UART) interface allows you to easily integrate this display to various Micro-controllers, Arduino and even Raspberry Pi. Nextion display is so easy to use that you can even use it with the basic 8051 Microcontrollers.

Nextion is a Seamless Human Machine Interface (HMI) solution from Itead that provides a control and visualisation interface between a human and a process, machine, application or appliance.

This solution includes hardware part - a series of TFT boards and software part - Nextion editor.  Nextion TFT board uses only one serial port to do communicating. Let you get rid of the wiring trouble. We notice that most engineers spend much time in application development but get unpleasant results. In this situation, Nextion editor has mass components such as button, text, progress bar, slider, instrument panel etc. to enrich your interface design. And the drag-and-drop function ensures that you spend less time in programming, which will reduce your 99% development workloads. With the help of this WYSIWYG editor, GUI designing is a piece of cake.

Now you can Develop your complete HMI in couple of hours using Nextion HMI Displays.

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TYPES OF NEXTION DISPLAYS

Nextion Displays are basically divided into three types:

• BASIC Nextion Display

This is the Basic HMI touch display with 65,536 colour, Resistive Touch, and serial interface.

• Enhanced Nextion Display

The Enhanced version has all features of basic version also it has more powerful CPU working at 108MHz. It has onboard RTC IC. ON board EEPROM for saving user data and 8 Input/Output pins which can be used to interface switches, buzzers, relays or even digital sensors.

• Intelligent Series

The Intelligent Series products have more powerful hardware in terms of MCU, Flash storage and SRAM compared with Basic Series and Enhanced Series. What’s more and new? The audio, video and animation play functions enrich user’s project HMI interaction. The Intelligent Series supports advanced software features and functions such as transparent component, page loading effect, component Move and Drag .etc.

Related Links for Nextion Displays

• Nextion Enhanced vs Nextion Basic Version
• Nextion Quick Start Guide
• Nextion Arduino Github Library

Tutorial for Nextion Display

• Nextion Display with Arduino Getting started
• Nextion Based Projects on Hackster
• LED control using Nextion and Arduino
• Touchscreen Interface to ESP8266 using Nextion
• Weather Station using Nextion and NODEMCU