Qwiic_Micro_OLED_Py

Python package for the qwiic Micro OLED board

This package is a port of the SparkFun Micro OLED Breakout Arduino Library

This package can be used in conjunction with the overall SparkFun qwiic Python Package

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Contents

• Supported Platforms
• Dependencies
• Installation
• Documentation
• Example Use

Supported Platforms

The qwiic Python package current supports the following platforms:

• Raspberry Pi
• NVidia Jetson Nano
• Google Coral Development Board

Dependencies

This driver package depends on the qwiic I2C driver: Qwiic_I2C_Py

This package depends on the OLED display driver base package: Qwiic_OLED_Base_Py

Documentation

The SparkFun qwiic Micro OLED module documentation is hosted at ReadTheDocs

Installation

PyPi Installation

This repository is hosted on PyPi as the sparkfun-qwiic-micro-oled package. On systems that support PyPi installation via pip, this library is installed using the following commands

For all users (note: the user must have sudo privileges):

sudo pip install sparkfun-qwiic-micro-oled

For the current user:

pip install sparkfun_qwiic_micro_oled

Local Installation

To install, make sure the setuptools package is installed on the system.

Direct installation at the command line:

python setup.py install

To build a package for use with pip:

python setup.py sdist

A package file is built and placed in a subdirectory called dist. This package file can be installed using pip.

cd dist
pip install sparkfun_micro_oled-<version>.tar.gz

Example Use

See the examples directory for more detailed use examples.

import qwiic_micro_oled
import sys




def runExample():

    #  These three lines of code are all you need to initialize the
    #  OLED and print the splash screen.
  
    #  Before you can start using the OLED, call begin() to init
    #  all of the pins and configure the OLED.


    print("\nSparkFun Micro OLED - Hello Example\n")
    myOLED = qwiic_micro_oled.QwiicMicroOled()

    if myOLED.is_connected() == False:
        print("The Qwiic Micro OLED device isn't connected to the system. Please check your connection", \
            file=sys.stderr)
        return

    #  Before you can start using the OLED, call begin() to init all of the pins and configure the OLED.
    myOLED.begin()

    myOLED.clear(myOLED.PAGE)  #  Clear the display's buffer

    myOLED.print("Hello World")  #  Add "Hello World" to buffer

    #  To actually draw anything on the display, you must call the display() function. 
    myOLED.display()

runExample()