RPi-Display

12864 OLED display library for Raspberry Pi

Software setup

Enable SPI on Raspberry Pi

remove the blacklisting for spi-bcm2708 in /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

reboot or load the driver manually with sudo modprobe spi-bcm2708

Install spidev module

Checkout Python Spidev

Install other requirements

RPi.GPIO

for basic Raspberry Pi GPIO manipulation

sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio

bdflib

for working with BDF font files

pip install bdflib

zerorpc

for remote display control

pip install zerorpc

Hardware setup

OLED Display	Raspberry Pi
GND	PIN 25 (GND)
VCC	PIN 1 (3.3V)
D0	PIN 23 (SCLK)
D1	PIN 19 (MOSI)
RST	PIN 13
DC	PIN 15

Usage

from display import Display

disp = Display(15, 13, "/home/pi/wenquanyi_12pt.bdf")
disp.displayText(0, 0, 1, "Hello World")

Remote display control over zerorpc

Run server script:

python server.py

Display text via rpc

zerorpc "tcp://IP-ADDRESS:4242" displayText 0 0 1 "Hello World"

Show current time via rpc

./showtime.sh