Statusboard Ctrl

This is a python app to controle a ThePiHut Status board.

Usage

Scripts

Best you put your executable scripts in the scripts subfolder and then symlink to 1 to 5 and 1.btn to 5.btn in the scripts directory.

The script will be called every UPDATE amount of time (default 30 seconds). Depending on the return code, the leds light up:

0 - Green ON, Red OFF
1 - Green OFF, Red OFF
2 - Green OFF, Red ON
other - Green OFF, Red ON

If you only use two bits to represent the return code, it basically means that the last bit stands for NOT Green, while the second to last bit stands for Red. I'm still thinking about supporting blink mode for the leds but how do you encode this in a sensible manner in the return code?

The .btn script will be called when you press the button. I'm still thinking about a good interface to support different lengths of button press but for now this is enough for me.

Starting as a Service

It's best to install a systemd unit file to manage the service. Here's an example that works fine:

[Unit]
Description=Statusboard Control
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=/root/statusboard-ctrl/ctrl.py --leds 3 --interval 60
Restart=always
RestartSec=30
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Dependencies

GPIO Zero (v1.4 or above) (like https://github.com/ThePiHut/statusboard)
RPi.GPIO or other GPIO-lib

apt install python3-gpiozero python3-pip
pip3 install RPi.GPIO

TODO