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This is the companion repo for running examples against the luma.emulator, luma.oled, luma.lcd and luma.led_matrix display drivers.
Assuming you are using a Raspberry Pi (running Debian Jessie or newer), follow the pre-requisites & instructions in the above repositories to wire up your display, then from a command-line:
$ sudo usermod -a -G i2c,spi,gpio pi
$ sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip python3-numpy libfreetype6-dev libjpeg-dev build-essential
$ sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libportmidi-dev
Log out and in again and clone this repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.examples.git
$ cd luma.examples
Finally, install the luma libraries using:
$ sudo -H pip install -e .
After cloning the repository, enter the examples
directory and try running one of the following examples listed below. For example:
cd examples
python3 3d_box.py
Example | Description |
---|---|
3d_box.py | Rotating 3D box wireframe & color dithering |
animated_gif.py | Renders an animated GIF |
bitstamp_ticker.py | Display the Bitcoin price at Bitstamp |
bitstamp_realtime.py | Displays the latest Bitcoin trades in realtime at Bitstamp |
bounce.py | Display a bouncing ball animation and frames per second |
carousel.py | Showcase viewport and hotspot functionality |
chroma.py | Trippy color rendering demo |
clock.py | An analog clockface with date & time |
colors.py | Color rendering demo |
crawl.py | A vertical scrolling demo, which should be familiar |
demo.py | Use misc draw commands to create a simple image |
dotmatrixtool.py | Simple demo showing how to integrate output from http://dotmatrixtool.com |
font_awesome.py | A meander through some awesome fonts |
game_of_life.py | Conway's game of life |
greyscale.py | Greyscale rendering demo |
image_composition.py | Displays different song titles and scrolls them back and forth |
invaders.py | Space Invaders demo |
jetset_willy.py | Sprite animation framework demo |
larson_hue.py | Alpha blending color demo |
matrix.py | The Matrix |
maze.py | Maze generator |
perfloop.py | Simple benchmarking utility to measure performance |
picamera_photo.py | Capture photo with picamera and display it on a screen |
picamera_video.py | Capture continuous video stream and display it on a screen |
pi_logo.py | Display the Raspberry Pi logo (loads image as .png) |
runner.py | Sprite animation framework demo |
savepoint.py | Example of savepoint/restore functionality |
scrolling_pixelart.py | Image dithering and viewport scrolling |
sprite_animation.py | Using sprite maps for animation effects |
starfield.py | 3D starfield simulation |
sys_histogram.py | Display system information including a rolling histogram |
sys_info.py | Display basic system information |
sys_info_extended.py | Display detailed system information in graph format |
terminal.py | Simple println capabilities |
tv_snow.py | Example image-blitting |
tweet_scroll.py | Using Twitter's Streaming API to display scrolling notifications |
video.py | Display a video clip |
weather.py | 3-day weather forecasts from the BBC |
welcome.py | Unicode font rendering & scrolling |
By default, all the examples will asume I2C port 1, address 0x3C
and the ssd1306
driver. If you need to use a different setting, these can be specified on the command line – each program can be invoked with a --help
flag to show the options:
$ python3 examples/demo.py --help
usage: demo.py [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--display DISPLAY] [--width WIDTH]
[--height HEIGHT] [--rotate ROTATION] [--interface INTERFACE]
[--i2c-port I2C_PORT] [--i2c-address I2C_ADDRESS]
[--spi-port SPI_PORT] [--spi-device SPI_DEVICE]
[--spi-bus-speed SPI_BUS_SPEED]
[--spi-transfer-size SPI_TRANSFER_SIZE]
[--spi-cs-high SPI_CS_HIGH] [--ftdi-device FTDI_DEVICE]
[--framebuffer-device FRAMEBUFFER_DEVICE] [--gpio GPIO]
[--gpio-mode GPIO_MODE]
[--gpio-data-command GPIO_DATA_COMMAND]
[--gpio-chip-select GPIO_CHIP_SELECT]
[--gpio-reset GPIO_RESET] [--gpio-backlight GPIO_BACKLIGHT]
[--gpio-reset-hold-time GPIO_RESET_HOLD_TIME]
[--gpio-reset-release-time GPIO_RESET_RELEASE_TIME]
[--block-orientation ORIENTATION] [--mode MODE]
[--framebuffer FRAMEBUFFER] [--num-segments NUM_SEGMENTS]
[--bgr] [--inverse] [--h-offset H_OFFSET]
[--v-offset V_OFFSET] [--backlight-active VALUE] [--debug]
[--transform TRANSFORM] [--scale SCALE] [--duration DURATION]
[--loop LOOP] [--max-frames MAX_FRAMES]
luma.examples arguments
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
General:
--config CONFIG, -f CONFIG
Load configuration settings from a file (default:
None)
--display DISPLAY, -d DISPLAY
Display type, supports real devices or emulators.
Allowed values are: ssd1306, ssd1309, ssd1322,
ssd1362, ssd1322_nhd, ssd1325, ssd1327, ssd1331,
ssd1351, sh1106, sh1107, ws0010, winstar_weh, pcd8544,
st7735, st7789, ht1621, uc1701x, st7567, ili9341,
ili9486, ili9488, hd44780, max7219, ws2812, neopixel,
neosegment, apa102, unicornhathd, capture, gifanim,
pygame, asciiart, asciiblock, linux_framebuffer
(default: ssd1306)
--width WIDTH Width of the device in pixels (default: 128)
--height HEIGHT Height of the device in pixels (default: 64)
--rotate ROTATION, -r ROTATION
Rotation factor. Allowed values are: 0, 1, 2, 3
(default: 0)
--interface INTERFACE, -i INTERFACE
Interface type. Allowed values are: i2c, noop, spi,
gpio_cs_spi, bitbang, ftdi_spi, ftdi_i2c, pcf8574,
bitbang_6800 (default: i2c)
I2C:
--i2c-port I2C_PORT I2C bus number (default: 1)
--i2c-address I2C_ADDRESS
I2C display address (default: 0x3C)
SPI:
--spi-port SPI_PORT SPI port number (default: 0)
--spi-device SPI_DEVICE
SPI device (default: 0)
--spi-bus-speed SPI_BUS_SPEED
SPI max bus speed (Hz) (default: 8000000)
--spi-transfer-size SPI_TRANSFER_SIZE
SPI bus max transfer unit (bytes) (default: 4096)
--spi-cs-high SPI_CS_HIGH
SPI chip select is high (gpio_cs_spi driver only)
(default: False)
FTDI:
--ftdi-device FTDI_DEVICE
FTDI device (default: ftdi://::/1)
Linux framebuffer:
--framebuffer-device FRAMEBUFFER_DEVICE
Linux framebuffer device (default: /dev/fd0)
GPIO:
--gpio GPIO Alternative RPi.GPIO compatible implementation (SPI
interface only) (default: None)
--gpio-mode GPIO_MODE
Alternative pin mapping mode (SPI interface only)
(default: None)
--gpio-data-command GPIO_DATA_COMMAND
GPIO pin for D/C RESET (SPI interface only) (default:
24)
--gpio-chip-select GPIO_CHIP_SELECT
GPIO pin for Chip select (GPIO_CS_SPI interface only)
(default: 24)
--gpio-reset GPIO_RESET
GPIO pin for RESET (SPI interface only) (default: 25)
--gpio-backlight GPIO_BACKLIGHT
GPIO pin for backlight (PCD8544, ST7735 devices only)
(default: 18)
--gpio-reset-hold-time GPIO_RESET_HOLD_TIME
Duration to hold reset line active on startup
(seconds) (SPI interface only) (default: 0)
--gpio-reset-release-time GPIO_RESET_RELEASE_TIME
Duration to pause for after reset line was made active
on startup (seconds) (SPI interface only) (default: 0)
Misc:
--block-orientation ORIENTATION
Fix 90° phase error (MAX7219 LED matrix only). Allowed
values are: 0, 90, -90, 180 (default: 0)
--mode MODE Colour mode (SSD1322, SSD1325 and emulator only).
Allowed values are: 1, RGB, RGBA (default: RGB)
--framebuffer FRAMEBUFFER
Framebuffer implementation (SSD1331, SSD1322, ST7735,
ILI9341 displays only). Allowed values are:
diff_to_previous, full_frame (default:
diff_to_previous)
--num-segments NUM_SEGMENTS
Sets the number of segments to when using the diff-to-
previous framebuffer implementation. (default: 4)
--bgr Set if LCD pixels laid out in BGR (ST7735 displays
only). (default: False)
--inverse Set if LCD has swapped black and white (ST7735
displays only). (default: False)
--h-offset H_OFFSET Horizontal offset (in pixels) of screen to display
memory (ST7735 displays only). (default: 0)
--v-offset V_OFFSET Vertical offset (in pixels) of screen to display
memory (ST7735 displays only). (default: 0)
--backlight-active VALUE
Set to "low" if LCD backlight is active low, else
"high" otherwise (PCD8544, ST7735 displays only).
Allowed values are: low, high (default: low)
--debug Set to enable debugging. (default: False)
Emulator:
--transform TRANSFORM
Scaling transform to apply (emulator only). Allowed
values are: identity, led_matrix, none, scale2x,
seven_segment, smoothscale (default: scale2x)
--scale SCALE Scaling factor to apply (emulator only) (default: 2)
--duration DURATION Animation frame duration (gifanim emulator only)
(default: 0.01)
--loop LOOP Repeat loop, zero=forever (gifanim emulator only)
(default: 0)
--max-frames MAX_FRAMES
Maximum frames to record (gifanim emulator only)
(default: None)
Note
#. python3-dev
(apt-get) and psutil
(pip/pip3) are required to run the sys_info.py
example. See install instructions for the exact commands to use. #. At runtime, luma.core
enumerates which display drivers are present and dynamically constructs the list of --display
options, therefore (for example) the capture
/gifanim
/pygame
options will not show unless luma.emulator is installed
There are various display emulators available for running code against, for debugging and screen capture functionality:
- The luma.emulator.device.capture device will persist a numbered PNG file to disk every time its
display
method is called. - The luma.emulator.device.gifanim device will record every image when its
display
method is called, and on program exit (or Ctrl-C), will assemble the images into an animated GIF. - The luma.emulator.device.pygame device uses the pygame library to render the displayed image to a pygame display surface.
After installing luma.emulator you can invoke the demos with:
$ python3 examples/clock.py --display pygame
or:
$ python3 examples/clock.py --display gifanim
$ python3 examples/starfield.py --display capture
Full documentation with installation instructions can be found in:
- https://luma-oled.readthedocs.io
- https://luma-lcd.readthedocs.io
- https://luma-led-matrix.readthedocs.io
- https://luma-core.readthedocs.io
- https://luma-emulator.readthedocs.io
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