Need help with Oled Screen

[Wiking]

Hello everybody,
I made a satellite for Squeezebox with a raspberry zero 2W running Picoreplayer.
Everything works correctly: the two rotary knobs and the OLED SSH1106 screen.

For the OLED screen I use LMSMonitor which is very good, but written in C.
It is not a language that I master. I prefer Python.

And so I can not modify the proposed display.

I have been desperately looking for a way to drive the OLED display in Python for a week.

I tried a lot of things and did a lot of research. I even tried to install Blinka without success.

Anyone can help ???
Thanks.

[paul-]

What screen do you have?

Perhaps you should say what lmsmonitor does not do for you that you are trying to change.

Adafruit has a lot of python libraries.....https://github.com/adafruit

[Wiking]

What screen do you have?

Perhaps you should say what lmsmonitor does not do for you that you are trying to change.

Adafruit has a lot of python libraries.....https://github.com/adafruit

My screen is a SSH1106 from AZDelivery, I2C 128x64 pixels with four pins (VDD, GND, SCK, SDA).
LMSMonitor is fine, but i can't modify it the way I want. That is to say manage precisely what is show on the screen. It's also a matter of "doing it myself"....
To modify it, I would need to change C code, and compile ....and that is far behond my knowledge. Python is ok for me.
I would like to have a very simple screen with title and artist and also be able to send some custom message to the screen depending of time and weather.

I had a deep look to adafruit. I tried to install Blinka (because PCP have micropython) and it was a fail. I tried the python SSD driver also. Same fail.
It seems to me that all othes lib/drivers are circuitpython. I can manage circuitpython but I don't know if install is possible on PCP.
Thanks for reading me.

[chicks]

Have you looked at this driver?

Also, I have a couple of repositories for driving LCD displays with LMS data in Python, which you may find of some use. They use PIL and the framebuffer.

https://github.com/retired-guy/Squeezebox-3.5

https://github.com/retired-guy/Squeezebox

[Wiking]

Have you looked at this driver?

Also, I have a couple of repositories for driving LCD displays with LMS data in Python, which you may find of some use. They use PIL and the framebuffer.

https://github.com/retired-guy/Squeezebox-3.5

https://github.com/retired-guy/Squeezebox

Yes I saw the driver. But sudo pip3 install ssd1306 fail (no matching distribution).
And sudo pip3 install luma.oled result is :

Running setup.py install for spidev ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/local/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-dtl3gr_5/spidev/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-dtl3gr_5/spidev/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"' "', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-jjxg_61v/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/local/include/python3.8/spidev
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-dtl3gr_5/spidev/
Complete output (17 lines):
running install
running build
running build_ext
building 'spidev' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.8
gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -O3 -pipe -march=armv6zk -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -use-ld=gold -O3 -pipe -march=armv6zk -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -use-ld=gold -fPIC -I/usr/local/include/python3.8 -c spidev_module.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.8/spidev_module.o
In file included from /tmp/tcloop/gcc/usr/lib/gcc/armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/10.2.0/include-fixed/limits.h:195,
from /tmp/tcloop/gcc/usr/lib/gcc/armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/10.2.0/include-fixed/syslimits.h:7,
from /tmp/tcloop/gcc/usr/lib/gcc/armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/10.2.0/include-fixed/limits.h:34,
from /usr/local/include/python3.8/Python.h:11,
from spidev_module.c:28:
/usr/lib/gcc/armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/10.2.0/include-fixed/limits.h:195:15: fatal error: limits.h: No such file or directory
195 | #include_next <limits.h> /* recurse down to the real one */
| ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/local/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-dtl3gr_5/spidev/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-dtl3gr_5/spidev/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"' "', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-jjxg_61v/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/local/include/python3.8/spidev Check the logs for full command outpu

[paul-]

Looks like your missing something, or possibly a bad compile flag. Pip normally will work, but then you have persistence issues. Sometimes you have to build it manually from source.

python3.8-Pillow.tcz Is in our repo. But I know I have built luma before.

[Wiking]

Looks like your missing something, or possibly a bad compile flag. Pip normally will work, but then you have persistence issues. Sometimes you have to build it manually from source.

python3.8-Pillow.tcz Is in our repo. But I know I have built luma before.

Thanks. Finally I get it working. Some dependency I had a hard time finding (compiletc was one of them).
So everything is working and I can use Python to draw on my oled screen. I am happy with that.

Concerning persistence issues I can confirm. I had to add the /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages to /opt/.filetool.list. It raises warning about the size but.... I have no other solutions I can find out.
I also add modprode i2c-dev to user command and my custom script also.

To that point, I will enjoy my sounds and stop making white nights !

Thanks again.

[Wiking]

Have you looked at this driver?

Also, I have a couple of repositories for driving LCD displays with LMS data in Python, which you may find of some use. They use PIL and the framebuffer.

https://github.com/retired-guy/Squeezebox-3.5

https://github.com/retired-guy/Squeezebox

thanks chicks, finally luma.oled is ok on my picoreplayer. The problem was dependency issues.

[paul-]

Thanks. Finally I get it working. Some dependency I had a hard time finding (compiletc was one of them).
So everything is working and I can use Python to draw on my oled screen. I am happy with that.

Concerning persistence issues I can confirm. I had to add the /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages to /opt/.filetool.list. It raises warning about the size but.... I have no other solutions I can find out.
I also add modprode i2c-dev to user command and my custom script also.

To that point, I will enjoy my sounds and stop making white nights !

Thanks again.

Make an extension

https://web.archive.org/web/20200208...ing_extensions

[Wiking]

Make an extension

https://web.archive.org/web/20200208...ing_extensions

thanks Paul.
this is what I finally did. Your link was far behond my knowledge.
So what I did is compare what was installed with pip, and I made and extension with this files and repertories according this : https://docs.picoreplayer.org/inform...re_extensions/
That's works well. Thanks again.

Now I am shifting to my usecase. Can you have a look to this ?

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...79#post1045879

Regards