Hello again! Its been a while, so I figured I would write about a project I +did this past winter break; my dashboard!
+ +This dashboard is a single TV with Pi that is showing some basic info about +my network and some of the services I run for myself. It really is just a +frontend for a bunch of json API endpoints both inside and outside my +network.
+ +This guy is all written by yours truly using C++ and SDL2. Its quite fast +while running on a Pi3 A. Really the only delays are network delays when it +fetches information.
+ +By far the selling point in my opinion is just how easy it is to create your +own panels if you know some C++, SDL2, and rapidjson (I know thats alot, but +its great for those three people who also know these few libraries). The +general gist is you create a class that inherets from the base panel class, +then add it to an array in config.cpp, and thats it! From then on it will call +a few functions you define (namely update() and draw()) and these will update +the internal state of the object and then update an SDL2 texture which is then +applied to the renderer.
+ +This system is a great example of the tradeoff between customization and +complexity. This system is more complex than an html front end for example, +however it is much more customizable. It allows for anything from custom OpenGL +shaders to determining exatly how your memory of your graphics are managed.
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