dashboard

My dashboard, for my house. Display RSS feeds and other custom bits of info via direct SDL2 calls.

Features/TODO

• Write straight to framebuffer (sdl2) (DONE)
• Display Weather rss feed (DONE)
• Display camera feed
• Display who is home
• Display network speed
• Display plex currently playing
• Play audio files (background music/tracks)?

Depends on

• sdl2
• stdlib

optional dependencies

• Weather/RSS
  • rapidxml
  • libcurl

Building sdl2 on rpi

Run in this order

sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev libgdm-dev

Next downlad the SDL source tarball

cd sdl-src
./configure --enable-video-kmsdrm
make -j4
sudo make install

compile the test.cpp file provided in ./tests . There should be output on the screen as flashing. Feel free to change the desired graphics driver in the raspberry pi config

Developing your own pannels

Refer to the [development] (DEVELOPMENT.md) documentation Usage

To compile:

make all

To install:

make install

To uninstall:

make uninstall