RPi Information Screen for Official Raspberry Pi Display

[elParaguayo]

Craig,

Glad you like the project.

Can you explain more about what you're trying to do. I'm virtually certain that we can get the script to do what you want, but I'd just like to understand it a bit better. Is it the case that you want the touch screen to be the controller for videos to be played on the other screen? If so, I would think that creating the controller screen should be pretty straightforward (I suspect the harder bit may be getting two display outputs to work simultaneously but I won't be much help there).

If you tell me what you'd like to do I'd be happy to give you some pointers to setting up your own screen.

It's probably worth saying that, unless you plan to also use some of the other screens (the Word Clock is my favourite) then installing my script is probably overkill for your needs.

Lastly, please note that there are two repositories for my Information Screen. The new, improved version (and the one I'm actively working on) is this one: https://github.com/elParaguayo/RPi-InfoScreen-Kivy. The one linked on your site seems to be the older version.

Good luck with your project!

[elParaguayo]

Still going...

Have now got a working version of an agenda using google calendars:


What's working:

• Retrieves all calendars
• Uses Google's calendars (although I make them a bit darker)

What's not working:

• No ability to select calendars (yet)
• No ability to select end date (yet) - defaults to 90 days ahead.

Just need to write up some notes as to how to use it and will then put on Github in a branch for testing.

[brendanssound]

Woohoo!

Iv been watching and waiting patiently for progress on this Gonna test it out tonight.. need to nap for now.

Now if only i could get mopidy working right ill be done with my project

[elParaguayo]

I'll try to upload tonight.

I've just realised it doesn't show the event location plus I think I can easily add an option to set the amount of days to be displayed.

[brendanssound]

Sounds good I'm looking forward to this.

[elParaguayo]

Ok - testing version is available on this branch: https://github.com/elParaguayo/RPi-Info ... _11_agenda

You'll need to read the README in the agenda folder. This takes a bit of setting up to get it working (not my fault!).

[elParaguayo]

Version 0.3 released.

The agenda and Energenie remote screen have both been added to the master version of the script.

[elParaguayo]

Basic photo album also working:
https://github.com/elParaguayo/RPi-Info ... photoalbum

[brendanssound]

Have been meaning to test this but basically since my last message iv been crook.. On the mend now .. horray!.. Will let you know how it all works on touchscreen.

Still no one has any ideas from my video? damn

[9and3r]

Have been meaning to test this but basically since my last message iv been crook.. On the mend now .. horray!.. Will let you know how it all works on touchscreen.

Still no one has any ideas from my video? damn

Mopidy screen has now playlist support. You can try if it works as it does not need input. It should list all your spotify playlists and when you tap on one of them the songs will be added to the tracklist and it will start playing.

[brendanssound]

Ha! Progress.. tweaked a few settings and reinstalled the mopidy screen with your latest one. I can see playlist now and music plays etc.. woohoo

i have found that if I select a playlist it starts playing.. But the now playing screen does not seem to update properly.. The play button is not a pause button. Next track does not seem to respond. Although the progress bar of the song does move. But ignores my inputs to skip through the track. Come to think of it .. all those things may be related to my Y axis being weird atm (as we discussed earlier) i'll work on that more later tonight.. birthday parties to attend

Also not sure if its just my end or not.. But mopidy logs a lot of these messages when selecting a track:

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WARNING  Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file a bug.

I actually think this may be due to a latency from my wifi adapter, although i can't confirm this yet.

Btw elParaguayo.. Love the calendar. Looking forward to updates on that.

[elParaguayo]

Btw elParaguayo.. Love the calendar. Looking forward to updates on that.

If there are any particular features you want, let me know.

[elParaguayo]

OK - for a bit of fun, I made a quick Christmas Countdown screen. (I know it's obvious that I didn't spend more than 5 mins on this!)


It's not going to get merged into the main branch but if you're interested in giving it a spin, then it's on this branch: https://github.com/elParaguayo/RPi-Info ... _countdown

[elParaguayo]

Pong!






Not yet in main branch, but can be tested here: https://github.com/elParaguayo/RPi-Info ... /pong_game

[brendanssound]

Pong looks awesome I wanna test this out but I'm going away for a week shortly and no time to get into it. Will you be making a video player at any point you think? Would be cool to lay in bed and watch Wall-E or something.

[elParaguayo]

I don't know about a video player. Kivy does have a built-in video player widget, but I don't know how good it is. I would have thought that using omxplayer would be preferable but I've got no idea if/how it works with Kivy. I may take a look if I have some time.

[elParaguayo]

Quick update: I'm working on adding a minimal web interface so you can toggle which screens are enabled and update configs without having to restart the script.

I will also be adding a "message board" screen where messages can be entered remotely via a web page and these will then display on the screen.

[elParaguayo]

Web config is coming along nicely (but slowly).

Each screen is now able to provide custom webpages. This can be used to help configure screens e.g. for the Football scores, instead of manually looking up the code of the relevant league, there is now a web page with the relevant multiselect lists to select from.

[bestd25]

i really want to install this but I'm having troubling just downloading Kivy..

[elParaguayo]

These instructions worked for me.

What problems are you having?

[elParaguayo]

Some screenshots of the web interface:

Activate/deactivate screens:


Edit configurations:


Access custom webpages provided by plugins:

[karrika]

The Kivy based design looks very nice. I might use it for a custom weather information box.

I would like to try this on a PiZero with just two rotary encoders with push switch capability. Has it been done already?

The hardware for interfacing two rotary encoders and a cheap car analog display is already drawn but not built or tested yet.

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[elParaguayo]

No reason for it not to work on the PiZero that I can see.

Would be simple enough to listen for GPIO events to trigger actions in Kivy.

I saw your mockup in the python thread. Looks very nice. Happy to help if I can.

[karrika]

Thank you.

Sounds good. I did program a little in Kivy some time ago. Before starting this project I will see how good/bad my ebay 11€ monitor including shipping turns out to be. "Black 4.3\" 480x 272 Digital Panel 2-CH Video Input Car Rearview LCD Monitor New". The display understands normal PAL/NTSC videos and can scale them down to the low resolution. It eats 12V so I added power on/off to the left rotary encoder push functionality. And there is also a mosfet to switch power on/off for the display and PiZero.

If the display is usable for displaying weather then I go with it.

I already found some python code snippets to work with rotary encoders. With your code the weather screens seem doable.

Edit: Got the screen. It looks good enough for the purpose.

[walter_1]

Hi,
I use your program successfully on my "raspberry-kivy image" http://kivypie.mitako.eu/kivy-download.html driven raspberry with the "original" pi-touch display.
I got errors with these two lines of the weather/screen.py code

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Line 121 sv=ScrollVies(size_hint=(1,1))
Line 122 sv.add_widget(bx) 

global name 'ScrollView' is not defined
as I'm actually not very familiar with python nor with kivy I just commented these lines. No big problem at all as I don't understand the request to Weather Underground, yet.

The problem is the screensaver on the pi, after some time the screen blanks and cannot be waken up with the touchscreen, which makes a keyboard necessary. How can I resolve this? As these python programs run not in X, I didn't found a solution yet.
Any help would be appreciated.