PyMOPanel

Python module to control Matrix Orbital GLK19264-7T-1U LCD+keyboard USB panels.

Manual: https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/255/GLK19264-7T-1U-5080.pdf

WORK IN PROGRESS.

Contents

• PyMOPanel: the module. The main class is PyMOPanel, which connects to the port(="/dev/ttyUSB0") argument
• demos: simple examples using the module functionalities
  • demo.py: general demo (graphics, text, keys, GPO -a.k.a. LEDs- bar graphs)
  • demo_filesystem.py: filesystem demo (dumping filesystem, listing and downloading files)
  • demo_top_panel.py: demo using bar graphs to show cpu + memory usage

TODO

• separate Driver from Controller and Demo logic
  • classes
  • files
• create proper module and python package
• create menu helper (a la curses) to allow adding items with custom callback functions
• MIDI / OSC
  • keyboard to OSC example
  • OSC / MIDI monitor with bar graphs
  • custom widgets for controllers / monitors? (knobs, ...)
• graphics
  • .bmp to screen
  • upload animated .gif to screen!
  • download bitmaps
  • create helper for threaded animations, so several animations on different screen positions are played (to check how serially-interleaved frames work)
  • upload bitmaps
  • save fs image to .bmp
  • implement strip charts
  • allow FM and AM in Lissajous demo
  • optimizations
    • use uploaded bitmaps instead for faster animations
    • use numpy.array's to precalculate trigonometric functions in vectors
• bar graphs
  • improve code (allow deleting, ...)
• fonts
  • FontManager (caching the current set font, downloading font to cache attributes)
  • font to ascii numpy arrays
  • ascii numpy arrays to font
  • downloader
  • uploader (WIP)
• filesystem
  • filesystem to .data dump
  • .data to filesystem
  • decoding filesystem to files
  • ls
  • move
  • rm
  • free
  • implement xmodem?
• hack for Quake to use the panel as display + input device?