martinohanlon / scroll-phat

>>>>>>>>>> Scroll pHAT >>>>>>>>>>

Note: This library is still a little bit beta, we've been rushed off our feet and haven't had time to properly test and refine it and come up with examples. Sorry! It mostly works, though!

11x5 pixels of message scrolling goodness!

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Pre-requisites

Use raspi-config to activate i2c

Install the smbus module:

sudo apt-get install python-smbus
sudo apt-get install python3-smbus

If you want to run the sine.py sample you will also need the psutil library:

sudo apt-get install python-psutil
sudo apt-get install python3-psutil

Installing

You can install the scrollphat library from pip like so:

sudo pip install scrollphat
sudo pip3 install scrollphat

Resetting the Scroll pHAT

run the turn_leds_off.py script to turn off all the LEDs

python turn-leds-off.py