Extending the script

[fizzyade]

Hi,

I just found your python project for the CurrentRanger, this script totally makes the CurrentRanger even more awesome than I thought it was already.

I bought my unit a couple of weeks back and for my own convenience I knocked up a small Python script to display information using ncurses in the terminal, I didn't realise your script existed at the time, I haven't created a repo for my script yet, it's currently living in a gist, but I'll move it to a repo over the weekend.

I am also thinking that maybe the functionality I've created (that doesn't exist currently in your app) I could merge into your project to allow optional extra data to be displayed on the plot, I don't know if this is something you would want or would have interest accepting PR's for?

https://gist.github.com/fizzyade/08a5803a6d9c50dad53c613b2f82abf9

Just thought I would run this past you before I go ahead only to find you don't think the additions are worth adding.

I'm also considering whether I might go a little further producing an application in Qt which mops up all this functionality, (possibly using QML for a slick display), I think it would be possible to come up with a pretty snazzy looking GUI in Qt, I guess QtPython could be used as well, although I'm not familiar with using Qt from python, I'm also not a python coder so my python code might not follow best practices.

I am thinking along the lines of using something like a pi zero-w with a hyper pixel touch display to provide a nice fluid and interactive GUI along with a 3d printed case which would allow the ranger to be mounted in the enclosure so it effectively becomes a single unit.