e-Paper

Currently in beta statium!

Preamble

Originally forked from the waveshare/e-Paper repository.

This repository has been reduced to work with the Waveshare 5.83'' e-Paper display on a Raspberry Pi. Support for other displays has been removed completely. Moreover it's meant to support only the C(++) programming language using the bcm2835 library instaed of Wiring Pi.

Prerequisites

git: sudo apt install git

bcm2835 lib

Download latest bcm2835-1.XX.tar.gz.

 tar zxvf bcm2835-1.XX.tar.gz
 cd bcm2835-1.XX
 ./configure
 make
 sudo make check
 sudo make install

libconfig: sudo apt install libconfig++-dev
ImageMagick (recommended): sudo apt install imagemagick

Compile

Use the (master) Makefile provided in the src/ directory. There are other Makefile files whithin subdirectories which will get invoked automatically by the (master) Makefile.

cd src
make
sudo ./epd

To-Dos

Move EPD_5IN83_* functions to the MonochromeDisplay class.
Create a driver class to handle SPI communication.
- Make the class a singleton
- Make the SPI pins configurable
Create conditional DEBUG output information.
Extend documentation.

Bugs