User Interface on Web-Server to control Led Matrix Panel
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:46 am
Hello everybody,
I'm currently working on a school project with the Raspberry Pi, and since I'm a newbie I'm having some difficulties.
The project is essentially: a 32x32 RBG Led Matrix Panel connected via GPIO to the RasPi, and all of this is put in a square lamp (which obviously lets the led's light through).
I downloaded this library (https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix) to control it and - after many difficulties - it works pretty well. I could also put new PPM images to scroll and the result is very good to see.
However, our task was creating a "potentially saleable object": writing every time the instructions on the terminal (sudo ./led-matrix -d -t...) isn't exactly user-friendly. So the idea - recommended by our professors - is setting a web-server with a graphical interface, which could show for instance a list of all the available images to display, so that it can be accessible by a mobile phone too. A further step should be allowing the user to directly upload his own images/text.
The main problem is that, as I wrote before, I'm a total noob: once I set the webserver (f.i. following this tutorial: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Raspberry-Pi-Web-Server), how do I continue?
It shouldn't be so hard, because all I want is that, when I click on "show the xxx image", the matrix displays the text as if I wrote the command on the terminal... I looked for some web tutorials, but I didn't find anything that fits my necessities.
Thanks a lot if someone could help me!
PS: Sorry if I made any mistake... I'm writing from Italy
I'm currently working on a school project with the Raspberry Pi, and since I'm a newbie I'm having some difficulties.
The project is essentially: a 32x32 RBG Led Matrix Panel connected via GPIO to the RasPi, and all of this is put in a square lamp (which obviously lets the led's light through).
I downloaded this library (https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix) to control it and - after many difficulties - it works pretty well. I could also put new PPM images to scroll and the result is very good to see.
However, our task was creating a "potentially saleable object": writing every time the instructions on the terminal (sudo ./led-matrix -d -t...) isn't exactly user-friendly. So the idea - recommended by our professors - is setting a web-server with a graphical interface, which could show for instance a list of all the available images to display, so that it can be accessible by a mobile phone too. A further step should be allowing the user to directly upload his own images/text.
The main problem is that, as I wrote before, I'm a total noob: once I set the webserver (f.i. following this tutorial: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Raspberry-Pi-Web-Server), how do I continue?
It shouldn't be so hard, because all I want is that, when I click on "show the xxx image", the matrix displays the text as if I wrote the command on the terminal... I looked for some web tutorials, but I didn't find anything that fits my necessities.
Thanks a lot if someone could help me!
PS: Sorry if I made any mistake... I'm writing from Italy
