rpi-rgb-led-matrix/python

Python bindings for RGB Matrix library

Building

In the root directory for the matrix library simply type:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev python-pillow -y
make build-python
sudo make install-python

You can also build for Python 3:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-pillow -y
export PYTHON=$(which python3)
make build-python
sudo make install-python

Using the library

Be aware of the fact, that using the RGBMatrix requires root privileges. Therefore you will need to run all you python scripts as using sudo.

You find examples in the samples/ subdirectory.

Here a complete example how to write an image viewer:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import time
import sys

from rgbmatrix import RGBMatrix
from PIL import Image

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.exit("Require an image argument")
else:
    image_file = sys.argv[1]

image = Image.open(image_file)

rows = 32
chain = 1
parallel = 1
matrix = RGBMatrix(rows, chain, parallel)

# Make image fit our screen.
image.thumbnail((matrix.width, matrix.height), Image.ANTIALIAS)

matrix.SetImage(image.convert('RGB'))

try:
    print("Press CTRL-C to stop.")
    while True:
        time.sleep(100)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    sys.exit(0)