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418 commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Henner Zeller
dc67b42aa4 o Minimize dark-time for longer display chains (addresses
issue #180).
o Expose the LSB pwm time as a settable #define
o Update documentation for various #defines in lib/Makefile
2016-07-23 16:37:04 -07:00
Henner Zeller
3cf3548509 o add an interlaced option. 2016-07-23 09:15:25 -07:00
Henner Zeller
7404105e5a o Early out if pulse not triggered 2016-07-22 23:33:58 -07:00
Henner Zeller
1434a19887 o Add an experimental option to prioritize brigthness. Only
really recommended for 1Bit PWM. Addresses issue #180
2016-07-22 09:04:42 -07:00
Henner Zeller
0ce27d5c7d o Provide a way to debug potential issues with the hardware pulser. 2016-07-01 18:10:30 -07:00
Henner Zeller
fc8b170b27 o Fix overflow issue for volume bars on larger displays (Fixes #161) 2016-06-19 09:25:08 -07:00
Henner Zeller
744578c8bd o Use g++ to link shared object. 2016-06-16 17:46:50 -07:00
Henner Zeller
f9ec4c4fe4 o Update README suggesting minimal configuration. 2016-06-13 19:10:19 -07:00
Henner Zeller
be41d4cb59 o Make it possible to actually start thread separately from GPIO 2016-06-09 20:52:43 -07:00
Henner Zeller
adbf63ae09 o Add documentation for e-line. 2016-06-05 13:16:09 -07:00
Henner Zeller
01ec618072 o Fix typo in row-range-check message. 2016-05-08 09:02:57 -07:00
Henner Zeller
6325e86107 o Fix a typo and some phrasing. 2016-05-06 09:18:28 -07:00
Henner Zeller
7351187a1d o Add Adafruit Makefile-mod description. 2016-05-06 09:05:41 -07:00
Henner Zeller
d7d33e9dd6 o apt-get is more likely to be installed than aptitude, so use
that in install examples.
2016-05-06 07:59:00 -07:00
Henner Zeller
584bde5ee5 o Smallish README updates for panels.
o Add TBD in schematic, pending E-signal connect to 2x8
2016-05-05 12:15:11 -07:00
Henner Zeller
741ee67497 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix
Conflicts:
	python/README.md
2016-05-05 10:35:18 -07:00
Henner Zeller
6c67391c19 o Add support for 'E' line (addresses #120)
o (does not yet address adapter PCBs. Awaiting feedback where the
  outputs usually are).
2016-05-05 10:31:14 -07:00
Henner Zeller
409d7bd3ce o Add a C-API (experimental right now, don't use yet)
o Provide a shared library
2016-05-05 08:29:51 -07:00
Henner Zeller
6108fedda1 o Allow GPIO and start thread to be set independently. 2016-05-05 08:29:13 -07:00
Henner Zeller
cf2c477bbc o Update documentation to mention to install python2.7-dev.
Fixes but #125 confusion.
2016-03-30 09:33:41 -07:00
Henner Zeller
0405cca5b0 o Remove trailing newlines. 2016-03-13 16:51:04 -07:00
Henner Zeller
4792349e0b o Add schematic for active-3 2016-03-13 12:40:16 -07:00
Henner Zeller
3bc8aac6e3 o Improve heart symbol 9829 (take from 10084) 2016-03-12 16:53:26 -08:00
Henner Zeller
90b18c0e58 o Apply font addition patch by Patrice Levesque <wayne@ptaff.ca> 2016-03-12 16:09:19 -08:00
Henner Zeller
9ab35b2f22 o Update doc to mention successfully tested Raspberry Pi 3
o Remove reference to realtime kernels: they are typically creating more
  trouble than benefit (8kHz interrupts keeping one core busy for 18% for
  instance).
o Point to the configuration option in cmdline.txt to reserve one
  CPU for display refresh.
2016-03-10 18:46:29 -08:00
Henner Zeller
e1bc8b2c2c o The graphicsmagick maintainers forgot a dependency, so add it
in the doc to add. Fixes #117
2016-03-08 08:20:32 -08:00
Henner Zeller
a559db250b o Allow to separate setting GPIO initialization from thread starting
(but keep same defaults).
2016-02-14 11:12:55 +00:00
Henner Zeller
416972e76b o .. add to BOM. 2016-02-10 18:58:15 -08:00
Henner Zeller
820210cdd0 o Add suggestion for capacitor size. 2016-02-10 18:56:57 -08:00
Henner Zeller
5cdf1b4954 o Add brightness flag for text-example (-b). Fixes #103 2015-12-06 16:30:42 -08:00
Henner Zeller
a9345e1861 o Make it configurable to only have one sub-panel per panel, as some
older panels provide that. Fixes #96
2015-12-05 13:01:23 -08:00
Henner Zeller
79c4cff787 o Make 64-bit value from hex parsing independent of platform
specific interpretations of 'long long'.
2015-12-03 04:22:14 +00:00
Henner Zeller
e655b7355a o Provide a way to swap green and blue. Some panels out there are
broken that way.
  Fixes #58
2015-12-02 07:35:37 +00:00
Henner Zeller
5c6653d168 o Add an example that shows text running. 2015-12-02 07:08:43 +00:00
Henner Zeller
79e6e25b51 o Add a Python graphics example. 2015-12-02 06:44:59 +00:00
Henner Zeller
90283819e5 o minor style issues. 2015-12-01 22:33:15 -08:00
Ian Foster
d7fd1fb561 o Added support for background colors on DrawText and DrawGlyph
o Make the versions with the background the default functions, keep
  the old versions merely for compatibility.
2015-12-01 22:30:55 -08:00
Henner Zeller
cd0a5e3fbf o Phython: Add Color constructor to directly give red/green/blue 2015-12-02 06:07:31 +00:00
Henner Zeller
269914a0bc Merge pull request #95 from jwheare/image-viewer-brightness
Add a -b brightness flag to led-image-viewer
2015-11-30 00:18:40 +01:00
James Wheare
c6cce1feeb Add a -b brightness flag to led-image-viewer 2015-11-29 22:57:33 +00:00
Henner Zeller
63a5da1bad o Update and clarify documentation for the ADAFRUIT_RGBMATRIX_HAT_PWM
o Take extra precaution that the hardware hack needed for the HAT-PWM
  does not clash with GPIO 4 being set as output on the system for
  some reason.
2015-11-25 23:38:50 +01:00
Henner Zeller
569b14211d o Clarify transformer readme section. 2015-11-23 09:19:10 -08:00
Henner Zeller
b100a40635 o Make it possible to use Transformers in the image viewer. 2015-11-22 20:18:35 +00:00
Henner Zeller
30fe1045a4 o caption title details. 2015-11-21 12:38:46 -08:00
Henner Zeller
add15b147c o += image caption 2015-11-21 12:35:03 -08:00
Henner Zeller
4f88aa554d o Some small README tweaks. 2015-11-21 12:27:39 -08:00
Henner Zeller
3e41f8d2e0 o Switch on GPIO slow-down by default. Limits support requests. 2015-11-19 23:02:24 -08:00
Henner Zeller
119fb3949d Merge pull request #85 from yarikoptic/doc-fix
DOC: no LargeSquare64x64Canvas anymore -- dealing with LargeSquare64x64Transformer
2015-11-19 21:55:02 -08:00
Henner Zeller
59b06c8fa7 o add a schematic. 2015-11-18 21:56:23 -08:00
Henner Zeller
bccce7f811 o adapt to changed Python-API 2015-11-14 17:26:24 -08:00