dashboard/README.md

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dashboard

My dashboard, for my house. Display RSS feeds and other custom bits of info via html. This isnt pretty, its just meant to work

Features/TODO

  • Write straight to framebuffer (sdl2)
  • Display Weather rss feed
  • Display camera feed
  • Display who is home
  • Display network speed
  • Display plex currently playing

Depends on

  • sdl2
  • stdlib

optional dependencies

  • 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

Usage

To compile:

make all

To install:

make install

To uninstall:

make uninstall