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Use with other epaper displays? #85

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jeffcostantino opened this issue Mar 6, 2023 · 4 comments
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Use with other epaper displays? #85

jeffcostantino opened this issue Mar 6, 2023 · 4 comments

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@jeffcostantino
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How difficult is it to use this with other brands (EastRising specifically? I bought one assuming it would be similar but it is not.

@robweber
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robweber commented Mar 7, 2023

The main criteria for interfacing with other EPD types is being able to program them via Python. Generally this is a wrapper around established libraries from the manufacturer for controlling a device. Do you have a link to the device you have, or any developer documentation they might have available?

@jeffcostantino
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Here is the link to the page with the display and there is a link at the bottom for the sample code which writes some images to the display. I am totally not a programmer but it looks like they are C libraries whereas the Waveshare libraries are Python.

They have not been especially helpful, the most I have gotten out of them is a youtube video on how to connect the display and run the demo. For being right up there with Waveshare and Inky for market share on Ebay, there is shockingly little information or projects on the internet.

@robweber
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I did some more digging and did find this repo that has some Python code but it's not super user friendly. Not even sure if it's in a working state. Definitely not a lot of info on these displays like you mentioned.

@jeffcostantino
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Thank you for finding that, I will see if I can make that code work on my display. Their displays all seem to have the same libraries so maybe substituting my board’s samples for that one will at least get me some output. It won’t be until maybe a day or two at least but I will give it a shot. Thanks!

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