makiftasova / rpi-auxdisplay

A server-client application to use RPi with a screen as a auxiliary display

rpi-auxdisplay

A server-client application to use RPi with a screen as a auxiliary display

Server

GUI which runs on Auxiliary Display (Raspberry Pi).

issue python3.4 server/server.py command from shell to run client

Client

Application which runs on main machine (laptop, desktop, anything other than your auxiliary display) and pushes data to server on auxiliary display.

issue python3.4 client/client.py command from shell to run client

Requirements

Python 3.4 or newer should be ebough to run both server and client with the dependecies given below. (Python3.4 is preinstalled on raspbian as of the date of 2017-02-19)

Dependencies

• python3.4
• requests: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests
• netifaces: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces
• zeroconf: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zeroconf
• feedparser: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser

References

• E-Mail Icon from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Email_Shiny_Icon.svg
• Weather API from https://www.wunderground.com/

Trivia

• Developement envrionement is Asus K53SV Laptop with Linux archlinux-k53sv 4.10.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 18 19:39:18 CET 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux and a Raspberry Pi 3 Type B with official 7" touchscreen and Linux raspberrypi 4.4.38-v7+ #938 SMP Thu Dec 15 15:22:21 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux