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    New Adafruit generic OLED display driver for Raspberry PI

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    • Meng QiM Offline
      Meng Qi
      last edited by Meng Qi

      This 96*96 oled screen is detected by my Pi and it is working with Seeed's own library, and it would also put out stuff while running your oled_demo.

      Does your library has a manual? It doesn't looks like python when I peek into your library files... Sorry I am quite a beginner. Thank you.

      I use my Pi to generate sound, and if I do oled operations within the same piece of .py file that does sound, any oled writing operations would block the sound. But if I open 2 terminal instances (I am using SSH), and run sound code on one, oled code on another, it wouldn't block the sound. So it is certainly not a CPU speed issue...

      Why does this happen? And if I make my Pi running some python code at boot, how I can make the codes running like within multiple terminals?

      Thank you!

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      • G Offline
        gbona
        last edited by

        I also try to run it on RPi2 with an SPI OLED 128x64 and ran into the same problem. The program freezes in display.begin(). What can be wrong?

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        • CharlesC Offline
          Charles
          last edited by

          Hi gbona,
          Did you checked that your I2C oled is visible with i2cdetect ? If so does his I2C address is 0x3C ?

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          • B Offline
            boik
            last edited by

            Hi Charles. I am trying to use your library to drive a 128x64 SPI OLED display I got from the internet. It is advertised as being SSD1106 (which I assume means SH1106). I have hacked the CS detect line of your code to force it to use SPI instead of the default I2C (this display has no CS pin). I am getting something on the display, but quite garbled.

            Here is a video of it running your OLED_demo. https://youtu.be/bETtabNliYc

            Are these symptoms familiar to you. Any ideas of what might need tweaking.

            Many thanks

            Graham

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            • CharlesC Offline
              Charles
              last edited by

              @boik,
              Strange, first time I see SPI oled without CS line, would you mind post a picture of the back ?

              You're right I forgot to add SPI option for SH1106 in oled_demo.

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              • B Offline
                boik
                last edited by

                Hi Charles,

                [IMG]http://i68.tinypic.com/6zwsjl.jpg[/IMG]

                Heres a pic of it running the circle, square, triangle cross demo. Just displays the bottom 8 lines of the image but at the top of the OLED.

                [IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/2mhbn7k.jpg[/IMG]

                Not sure if this forum accepts IMG tags?

                Graham

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                • D Offline
                  Deennoo
                  last edited by

                  Hello Charles

                  I got a freebox server out of ordre.

                  There is a ssd1327 screen on it.

                  If i send you the pcb pictures can you help me to find the good pin to plug it to my PI ?

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                  • CharlesC Offline
                    Charles
                    last edited by

                    @Deennoo
                    you can post the picture on the forum, may be some other will know, because I'm not sure I will.

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                    • M Offline
                      Matthieu Laborie @Deennoo
                      last edited by

                      @Deennoo

                      Hi, did you succeed getting the freebox server Oled Display work with a raspberry or Arduino? Did you find any wiring schema, or source code. I would like to reuse the whole SSD1327 and CAP1066 pad of the freebox.

                      Regards

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                      • A Offline
                        akdracom
                        last edited by

                        I followed your procedures and up to the part of :

                        git clone https://github.com/hallard/ArduiPi_OLED

                        and received the following error message and can't go further :

                        fatal: could not create work tree dir 'ArduiPi_OLED'.: No space left on device

                        I am using a 8GB SD card and I think I have enough space - don't I ?

                        I then issued df -Bm command to check space with following :

                        Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
                        /dev/root 4196M 4087M 0M 100% /
                        devtmpfs 483M 0M 483M 0% /dev
                        tmpfs 487M 0M 487M 0% /dev/shm
                        tmpfs 487M 7M 481M 2% /run
                        tmpfs 5M 1M 5M 1% /run/lock
                        tmpfs 487M 0M 487M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
                        /dev/mmcblk0p6 63M 20M 44M 31% /boot
                        tmpfs 98M 0M 98M 0% /run/user/1000

                        Am I running out of memory or what, please advise - thanks

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                        • A Offline
                          akdracom
                          last edited by

                          I forget to mention that in my SD card - I also have installed a media player OS (OpenElec) in addition to the Raspian OS

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                          • CharlesC Offline
                            Charles
                            last edited by

                            @akdracom
                            your're missing space on SD card 100% on /dev/root, you're SD seems to be formatted to 4GB

                            May be trying raspiconfig and select the menu to expand filesystem to use full SD Size (8GB) will help

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                              donde
                              last edited by

                              Screen Never Lights
                              New to OLED. Waiting for SSH1306 1.3" display like on Adafruit website. Sent for SH1106 display instead. Pinouts are left to right: VDD VSS SCK SDA D/C CS1 FS0 CS2
                              Using Pi Zero. Went through tutorial OK I think. 2 problems:

                              root@raspberrypi:~# ls /dev/i2c*
                              /dev/i2c-0
                              root@raspberrypi:~# ls /dev/spi*
                              /dev/spidev0.0 /dev/spidev0.1

                              The first check returned /dev/i2c-1 instead of /dev/i2c-0
                              The second response was OK.
                              Now I wasn't at root when I did commands, but at user.
                              Other problem I had to supply sudo for
                              ./oled_demo --verbose --oled 6
                              I received this:

                              pi@raspberrypi:~/ArduiPi_OLED/examples $ ./oled_demo --verbose --oled 6
                              oled_demo v1.1
                              -- OLED params --
                              Oled is : SH1106 I2C 128x64
                              -- Other Stuff --
                              verbose is : yes

                              bcm2835_init: Unable to open /dev/mem: Permission denied
                              pi@raspberrypi:~/ArduiPi_OLED/examples $ sudo ./oled_demo --verbose --oled 6
                              oled_demo v1.1
                              -- OLED params --
                              Oled is : SH1106 I2C 128x64
                              -- Other Stuff --
                              verbose is : yes

                              x: 9y: 0dy: 3
                              x: 30y: 0dy: 2
                              x: 111y: 0dy: 2
                              x: 81y: 0dy: 4
                              x: 41y: 0dy: 2
                              x: 85y: 0dy: 5
                              x: 7y: 0dy: 5
                              x: 76y: 0dy: 2
                              x: 72y: 0dy: 3
                              x: 76y: 0dy: 4

                              Nothing on screen!
                              I wired it this way from Pi Zero
                              Pi 5 volts to Vdd
                              Pi GND to Display VSS
                              Pi SCL to Display SCK
                              Pi SDA to Display SDA
                              IO25 to Display FSO

                              No ID on Display, just this description:

                              Features

                              Self-luminous display for backlight
                              High resolution: 128 x 64
                              Viewing angle: >160 degree
                              Supports many control chip: Fully compatible with Arduino, 51 Series, MSP430 Series, STM32 / 2, CSR IC, etc.
                              Ultra-low power consumption: full screen lit 0.08W
                              Voltage: 3V ~ 5V DC
                              Working Temperature: -30 oC ~ 70 oC
                              Module Size: 32.0mm x 35.50mm x 4.1mm
                              SPI Interface, need 4 IO only.
                              Driver IC: SH1106
                              

                              Package Includes

                              1 x 1.3" SPI Serial 128X64 OLED LCD LED Display Module for Arduino UNO R3
                              

                              Not sure what try next. What turns on screen to see at least something?
                              Thanks ... donde

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                              • D Offline
                                donde
                                last edited by

                                I looked closer at box the display came and it said it is for SPI mode. I tried i2C and didn't light up. Then, tried SPI and still no success. Doesn't seem to be a RST pin. I see no pictures of the same pin arrangement on the Net. Looks to be a special display no one knows about. Guess I'll return it and hopefully the SSH1306 will be available soon, Sorry to take up so much room here is this comments section. Moderator, you can delete all I said on first post. donde

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                                • fiveseven808F Offline
                                  fiveseven808
                                  last edited by

                                  I'm wondering if anyone can help me here... so using I2C, this driver works flawlessly! However, using SPI, I can't get my display to do anything (using the pinouts on the site). I know the display sort of works because the adafruit python library displays something (i think something is wrong with my screen). However, there is zero response with SPI.

                                  Any ideas?

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                                  • S Offline
                                    shiftleftplusone
                                    last edited by

                                    hello,
                                    can you please provide compile/build parameter settings and examples hw to use this lib with Geany, providing system-wide paths to #include the libs from each proprietary source code program located in any different directory?

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                                    • S Offline
                                      shiftleftplusone
                                      last edited by

                                      hello,
                                      you specified the following types:
                                      0 Adafruit SPI 128x32
                                      1 Adafruit SPI 128x64
                                      2 Adafruit I2C 128x32
                                      3 Adafruit I2C 128x64
                                      4 Seeed I2C 128x64
                                      5 Seeed I2C 96x96
                                      6 SH1106 I2C 128x64

                                      the chip of the 6th is obvious, but which chip types are especially 1,3, and 4?
                                      what about the i2c dev addresses of these OLEDs, and how to change them in the code if needed?

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                                      • S Offline
                                        shiftleftplusone
                                        last edited by

                                        another question:
                                        you wrote
                                        " Added millis() function"

                                        But millis() is already provided by Gordon Henderson's WiringPi lib which I always use - I'm afraid that will cause interferences and problems. How can one fix that problem?

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                                        • S Offline
                                          shiftleftplusone
                                          last edited by

                                          and 3rd,
                                          how to optionally the OLEDson i2c-1 or/and on i2c-0 ?

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                                          • S Offline
                                            shiftleftplusone
                                            last edited by

                                            sorry, typos:
                                            and 3rd,
                                            how to optionally drive the OLEDs on i2c-1 or/and on i2c-0 ?

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