lcdpoled

This utility knows how to push text to a Logic Controls line display device (also known as a pole display).

It uses rusb, a safe Rust wrapper for libusb, so it should work on Linux, macOS, and Windows, although only Linux has been tested.

Installation

Cargo

Install the rust toolchain in order to have cargo installed by following this guide.
run cargo install lcdpoled

Access to USB as a regular user on Linux

Your mileage may vary, but to grant myself access to the USB device as an ordinary user on a Raspberry Pi system, I needed to create /etc/udev/rules.d/50-local.rules with the following line:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fa8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="a090", GROUP="users", MODE="0666"

License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Please note that libusb is licensed under the LGPL, so depending on how you build and link lcdpoled you may have some obligations under that license.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.