Add support for 7.8inch e-paper

[Patrick Haug]

Hi,
total noob here :) is it much work to add support for https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/7.8inch-e-paper-hat.htm?

Thanks and cheers!

[samsonmking]

Hi @patrickhaug, thanks for your interest in the project. I took a quick look at the 7.8" display, and adding support for it is definitely doable.

Unfortunately, all the currently supported displays all use this HAT. Adding support for displays compatible with that HAT is very easy, as a lot of the groundwork is already in place. To add support for the 7.8" display we'd need to expose the C drivers from this project into Node using the Node C API.

[Patrick Haug]

Thanks @samsonmking would love to do that but honestly I just dont know how to start 😂 .. argh I have this display laying around here

[samsonmking]

I've got my hands full at the moment working on a 2.0 release, but maybe some time in the future I could look at laying some groundwork for you 🙂