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Waveshare e-ink displays support #152

Closed JensC closed 7 years ago

JensC commented 7 years ago

Hi All,

I wonder if someone plans to (or already works on) support the waveshare e-ink displays with PaPiRus, e.g the 2.9 and 1.54 inch displays. What is needed to get this working? Is it only to extend the epd_fuse driver or is there more to it?

Thanks in advance

shawaj commented 7 years ago

I believe the connection cable is different so it'll be a hardware and software change.

We're already working on support for similar displays though.

Do you already have the waveshare displays? Could you send pictures of them? And links?

Thanks, Aaron

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Hi All,

I wonder if someone plans to (or already works on) support the waveshare e-ink displays with PaPiRus, e.g the 2.9 and 1.54 inch displays. What is needed to get this working? Is it only to extend the epd_fuse driver or is there more to it?

Thanks in advance

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tvoverbeek commented 7 years ago

See e.g. http://www.waveshare.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=e-ink+display. Waveshare is located in Shenzhen. It seems most of their e-ink displays are 3-color (B/W/Red) and using an integrated timing controller (with Look Up Tables). See their wiki for more development information for RPi and Arduino.

JensC commented 7 years ago

@shawaj yes I have both displays. They are pretty inexpensive (between 15 and 20 € at ebay Germany). So I could test any PaPiRus software to see how far it would work. @tvoverbeek yes I know their sources (wiki and libraries). However the waveshare software is, lets say it politely, not so great. I think supporting those displays would be of great benefit for a lot of iot developers.

shawaj commented 7 years ago

@JensC our software won't work with these displays and also the displays won't connect into our driver boards so it won't work from both aspects