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  1. === About ===
  2. stdd (short for "simple time display daemon") is a handy little daemon for
  3. the Raspberry PI device that can be used to display the current time on a
  4. 7 segment display with a HT16K33 backpack from Adafruit Industries. It
  5. makes heavy use of the python libraries published by Adafruit to control
  6. the display via I2C.
  7. === USAGE ===
  8. see ./stdd
  9. === Dependencies ===
  10. stov depends on the following software to be installed:
  11. * python 2.7 or higher (lower 2.x versions might work but are not tested 3.x is not supported)
  12. * python-smbus
  13. * python-pcrtl (optional)
  14. === COPYING ===
  15. see LICENSE
  16. === Configuration ===
  17. HW_ADDRESS: hardware address for your display, a common value is
  18. "0x70" use i2cdetect to find yours if it doesn't match
  19. BLINK_COLON: define if you want the middle colon to blink, 0 = off, 1
  20. = on
  21. BRIGHTNESS_HIGH: value used for "high" brightness, valid values are
  22. 0-15
  23. BRIGHTNESS_LOW: value used for "low" brightness, valid values are
  24. 0-15
  25. SET_BRIGHTNESS_LOW: value used for "low" brightness, valid values are
  26. 0-15
  27. SET_BRIGHTNESS_HIGH: time of the day to change the brightness from
  28. low to high
  29. SYSLOG_LEVEL: maximum syslog level to log, stdd uses debug, info and
  30. error
  31. SYSLOG_FACILITY: syslog facility to use for logging (default: user,
  32. can also be daemon)
  33. === Known issues ===
  34. None yet
  35. === Installation ==
  36. see INSTALL