This project is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Turing / XuanFang / Kipye brands, or any of theirs subsidiaries, affiliates, manufacturers or sellers of their products. All product and company names are the registered trademarks of their original owners.
This project is an open-source alternative software, NOT the original software provided for the smart screens. Please do not open issues for USBMonitor.exe/ExtendScreen.exe or for the smart screens hardware here.
A Python system monitor program and an abstraction library for small IPS USB-C (UART) displays.
Supported operating systems : macOS, Windows, Linux (incl. Raspberry Pi), basically all OS that support Python 3.8+
✅ Turing Smart Screen 3.5" | ✅ XuanFang 3.5" | ✅ Turing Smart Screen 5" |
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also improperly called "revision A" by the resellers | revision B & flagship (with backplate & RGB LEDs) | basic support (no video or storage for now) |
✅ UsbPCMonitor 3.5" / 5" | ✅ Kipye Qiye Smart Display 3.5" |
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Unknown manufacturer, visually similar to Turing 3.5" / 5". Original software is UsbPCMonitor.exe |
Front panel has an engraved inscription "奇叶智显" Qiye Zhixian (Qiye Smart Display) |
Please note all listed smart screens are different products designed and produced by different companies, despite having a similar appearance. Their communication protocol is also different.
This project offers an abstraction layer to manage all of these products in a unified way, including some product-specific features like backplate RGB LEDs for available models!
If you haven't received your screen yet but want to start developing your theme now, you can use the "simulated LCD" mode!
❔ Turing Smart Screen 8.8" | ❔ Turing Smart Screen 2.1" | ❌ (Fuldho?) 3.5" IPS Screen |
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Very similar protocol than the 5". Support planned in a future version. | Very similar protocol than the 5". Support planned in a future version. | Managed by proprietary Windows software SmartMonitor.exe . Cannot be supported by this project: see here. Use alternative library https://github.com/braewoods/hidss |
❌ Waveshare 2.1inch / 2.8inch / 5inch / 7inch USB-Monitor | ❌ GUITION Smart screen |
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Sold on Waveshare shop or Aliexpress. Managed by proprietary Windows software "Waveshare PC Monitor". Cannot be supported by this project: needs a firmware. | Managed by proprietary Windows software "GUITION Smart screen". Cannot be supported by this project: see here. |
❔ SmartCool Lcd / GeekTeches AD35 / AIDA64 / AX206 |
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Not supported. Produced by multiple manufacturers, all use the same Appotech AX206 hacked photo frame firmware. Supported by AIDA64 and lcd4linux |
There are 2 possible uses of this project Python code:
This project is mainly a complete standalone program to use your screen as a system monitor, like the original vendor app.
Some themes are already included for a quick start!
config.yaml
file: no Python code to edit.res/themes
) with theme.yaml
files using theme editor to be shared with the community!... view full list
and more... Share yours!
If you don't want to use your screen for system monitoring, you can just use this project as a module from any Python code to do some simple operations on the display:
This project will act as an abstraction library to handle specific protocols and capabilities of each supported smart screen models in a transparent way for the user.
Check simple-program.py
as an example.
If you have trouble running the program as described in the wiki, please check open/closed issues & the wiki Troubleshooting page