search

pappersverk / inky

A library for managing Inky e-ink displays from Elixir.
Apache License 2.0
72 stars 11 forks source link

Testing/Helping #1

Closed jasonmj closed 5 years ago

jasonmj commented 5 years ago

Hi there, I've just purchased an Inky phat for my rpi0 and I'm trying to get your repo to work. I wanted to reach out to you and see how this project is coming along and if there's anything I can do to test/help out?

I've got the yellow version of the Inky phat. So far, I've added this repo as a dependency to a basic Nerves sandbox and I'm able to interact with with it over ssh in an iex session.

I ran the few commands I saw in the "Examples" comment under Inky.ex and all went well until I ran Inky.show(state).

iex(20)> Inky.show(state) "send_command/2" "spi_write/3 binary" ** (MatchError) no match of right hand side value: {:error, :timeout} (inky_zero_nerves) lib/inky/inky.ex:279: Inky.spi_write/3 (inky_zero_nerves) lib/inky/inky.ex:85: Inky.setup/2 (inky_zero_nerves) lib/inky/inky.ex:135: Inky.update/3

I haven't got time right now to dig in further and see if I can get this to work, but I would like to spend some time playing with it over the holidays. I figured it'd be good to drop you a line and say hi before I got to tinkering with it.

Anyhow, I'll see what I can do on my own over the next few days and check back later with a progress report. Until then, thanks for the work you've done here!

jasonmj commented 5 years ago

Hello again, I ended up forking this repo and pushing a few commits that allowed me to update the screen using Inky.show(state) after setting the state with Inky.setup(nil, :phat). I also started working on an umbrella app that uses my fork as a target dep alongside Mogrify with the goal of displaying an image. I've still got a long way to go there, but I wanted to let you know I've made a little progress. Here's the fork:

https://github.com/jasonmj/inky_zero_nerves

lawik commented 5 years ago

Oh, sorry for not answering, I haven't been keeping tabs on my GitHub notifications.

You got it to show things? Then you might have solved whatever problem I was having because I had not made it work right yet. Wow! I have to check out your fix when I have a moment :)

lawik commented 5 years ago

I checked your commits. Seems I wasn't far from getting it going. Would you mind cooking up a PR and a way to select red/yellow and we can merge back in. I'm happy to cooperate on getting this as far as possible with whatever time we have. I don't particularly care which repo we work in to be honest :)

lawik commented 5 years ago

I'll hook you up with access if you're up for it.

lawik commented 5 years ago

I've merged your changes to this master.

jasonmj commented 5 years ago

Awesome, thanks Lars! I haven't had much time to work on Nerves projects since the start of the year. I've got another project I'm putting time into now, but I hope to get back to Inky Nerves sometime in the next few weeks.

I'd be happy to continue developing the library with you. I don't particularly care which repo we use, but it probably makes more sense to use the one you created.

I'm on Elixir Slack and in the Elixir Forum every now and then. Keep in touch!

-=- Jason Johnson FullSteam Labs 828.202.5300

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:22 AM Lars Wikman notifications@github.com wrote:

I've merged your changes to this master.

— You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/lawik/inky_zero_nerves/issues/1#issuecomment-456347074, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB36Ttu33wXUYPDD9ycxvKU1chcgZ6KEks5vFuZWgaJpZM4Zf-Yd .

lawik commented 5 years ago

I know how it can be, with projects and fun things.

I'll add you to this repo.