LCDproc driver for PiFace Control and Display

11/02/2014 - The patch has been merged into the LCDproc dev branch. There have been changes made to the way inputs work by Markus Dolze, before the merge. The code in this repository does not reflect these changes.

Install

First, enable SPI:

$ sudo raspi-config

Navigate to Advanced Options, SPI and select yes. Reboot.

Download the latest version of LCDproc from here (click Download GNU tarball).

Build:

$ tar xvf lcdproc.tar.gz
$ cd lcdproc/lcdproc
$ sh ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --enable-drivers=hd44780
$ make

Download the config:

$ curl https://raw2.github.com/tompreston/pifacecad-lcdproc/master/lcdproc/LCDd.conf > LCDd.conf

Run the server as root in one terminal session (ssh/tmux/background):

$ sudo server/LCDd -c LCDd.conf

Run the client in another terminal session to test:

$ clients/lcdproc/lcdproc -f C M T

XBMC

Once the server is running you can use the LCDproc XBMC addon to display XBMC information on PiFace Control and Display.