Paper terminal

This small python util allows to spawn a terminal emulator displayed on RaspberryPi with Waveshare E-paper 2.9 inch display.

Installation

• requires EPD driver from Waveshare's examples to work
• needs to run as root and have packages from requirements.txt installed via pip

Replacing tty

To run this terminal instead of tty you will need a following file in Raspbian:

/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/path/to/terminal_poc.py
StandardInput=tty
StandardOutput=tty
User=root

Note the - before the path.