Micro Dot pHAT manager

Micro Dot pHAT manager is a framework for the Pimoroni Micro Dot pHAT.

It controls the Micro Dot pHAT using various apps which you can switch between with a CLI utility.

Installation

First, clone the repository and change directory into it:

git clone git@github.com:tsbarnes/microdotphat.git ~/microdotphat
cd ~/microdotphat

Then, install the requirements:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Now you're ready to run it:

python3 app.py

If you want it to start automatically on boot:

sudo cp ~/microdotphat/microdotphat.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable microdotphat

Apps

The included apps are as follows:

• graph - displays a line graph of the system load
• scrolling_text - scrolls through a line of text
• thermal - reports the CPU temperature
• webtext - a receiver app for webtext

CLI

To use the CLI client, run cli.py. It takes a command line argument for previous, next, etc.

The current list of CLI commands is as follows:

• python3 cli.py next - change to next app
• python3 cli.py previous - change to previous app