lunixo/novastar-utility

With this command line tool you can test a Novastar MCTRL300 and control the brightness

Brightness control and test utility for Novastar MCTRL300

With this command line tool you can test a Novastar MCTRL300 and control the brightness.

Requirements

• Linux
• python3
• pyserial

Installation

./install.sh

Features

Set the brightness (0-255)

novastar --brightness 120

Turn off

novastar --brightness 0

Show test patterns (red,green,blue,white,slash,vertical,horizontal,grayscale)

novastar --test horizontal
novastar --test slash
novastar --test grayscale

Hide test pattern

novastar --test normal

License

• This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0
• This project uses GPL 3 licensed code from https://github.com/dietervansteenwegen/Novastar_MCTRL300_basic_controller

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Dieter Vansteenwegen https://github.com/dietervansteenwegen and Bitfocus AS https://github.com/bitfocus for their Github contributions. Their code has been incredibly helpful in the development of this utility.