PiTFT Manager

Display manager for framebuffer devices (like the PiTFT) on Raspberry Pi.

What's a display manager?

Simply put, a display manager is an application that provides other applications with access to the display.
In practice, this means you can create your own apps for it, switch between apps on the fly, and more!

Why PiTFT?

The Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" is what I'm developing it on/for, so I chose to reference it in the name.

What apps come with it?

Right now, there are three included apps:

  • system - displays system information
  • fortune - displays fortune cookies
  • Note: requires fortune-mod to be installed!
  • affirmations - displays positive affirmations

Creating apps

Creating apps is simple, each app is a Python module that provides an App class,
which should inherit from the apps.AbstractApp class. Then you just need to implement
the run_iteration method and have it do whatever you want the app to do!

More documentation for development coming soon.

Installation

  • First, clone the repository onto the Raspberry Pi, I recommend cloning it to /home/pi/pitftmanager and then change directory into it.
  • Second, install the required Python libraries.
  • Third, link the pitftmanager.service file into /etc/systemd/system.
  • Fourth, enable the systemd service.
  • Lastly, start the systemd service, or reboot.

Quick command list to install:

git clone https://github.com/tsbarnes/pitftmanager.git ~/pitftmanager
cd ~/pitftmanager
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
sudo ln -s /home/pi/pitftmanager/pitftmanager.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable pitftmanager
sudo systemctl start pitftmanager
GitHub - tsbarnes/pitftmanager: Display manager for framebuffer devices (like the PiTFT) on Raspberry Pi
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