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Introduction

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This is a full featured CircuitPython Library for the RA8875 that included all of the hardware accelerated drawing functions as the original Arduino library. A lot of the functionality has been streamlined with a focus on ease of use that is still flexible enough to make full use of the hardware. For instace, Graphics and Text mode switching is now automatic and handled in the background.

Dependencies

This driver depends on:

Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.

Installing from PyPI

On supported GNU/Linux systems like the Raspberry Pi, you can install the driver locally from PyPI. To install for current user:

pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-ra8875

To install system-wide (this may be required in some cases):

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-ra8875

To install in a virtual environment in your current project:

mkdir project-name && cd project-name
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-ra8875

Usage Example

See examples/ra8875_simpletest.py and examples/ra8875_bmptest.py for examples of the module's usage. When running the bmptest, be sure to upload the blinka.bmp image to the root folder as well.

Documentation

API documentation for this library can be found on Read the Docs.

For information on building library documentation, please check out this guide.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.

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adafruit_circuitpython_ra8875's Issues

TypeError when running simpletest on Raspberry Pi

This is the first time I've run it on the Raspberry Pi and it works mostly, but was a little laggy (SPI bus speed maybe) and output this error at the end:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ra8875_simpletest.py", line 66, in <module>
    display.txt_write("Player Score: " + str(testvar))
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py", line 475, in txt_write
    self._write_data(char, True)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py", line 225, in _write_data
    spi.write(data if raw else bytearray([data & 0xFF]))  # pylint: disable=no-member
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/busio.py", line 170, in write
    return self._spi.write(buf, start, end)
  File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/generic_linux/spi.py", line 61, in write
    self._spi.writebytes2(buf[start:end])
TypeError: Non-Int/Long value in arguments: b6687160.

Missing Type Annotations

There are missing type annotations for some functions in this library.

The typing module does not exist on CircuitPython devices so the import needs to be wrapped in try/except to catch the error for missing import. There is an example of how that is done here:

try:
    from typing import List, Tuple
except ImportError:
    pass

Once imported the typing annotations for the argument type(s), and return type(s) can be added to the function signature. Here is an example of a function that has had this done already:

def wrap_text_to_pixels(
    string: str, max_width: int, font=None, indent0: str = "", indent1: str = ""
) -> List[str]:

If you are new to Git or Github we have a guide about contributing to our projects here: https://learn.adafruit.com/contribute-to-circuitpython-with-git-and-github

There is also a guide that covers our CI utilities and how to run them locally to ensure they will pass in Github Actions here: https://learn.adafruit.com/creating-and-sharing-a-circuitpython-library/check-your-code In particular the pages: Sharing docs on ReadTheDocs and Check your code with pre-commit contain the tools to install and commands to run locally to run the checks.

If you are attempting to resolve this issue and need help, you can post a comment on this issue and tag both @FoamyGuy and @kattni or reach out to us on Discord: https://adafru.it/discord in the #circuitpython-dev channel.

The following locations are reported by mypy to be missing type annotations:

  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:44
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:63
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:105
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:180
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:192
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:205
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:215
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:231
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:255
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:275
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:299
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:309
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:313
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:324
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:332
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:345
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:429
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:445
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:458
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:469
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:479
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:491
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:505
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:518
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:528
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:539
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:552
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:562
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:594
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:606
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:618
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:626
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:637
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:648
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:660
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:672
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:686
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:700
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:714
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:728
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:739
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:750
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:776
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:803
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:832
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:849
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:867
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:885
  • adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py:905

OverflowError: value must fit in 1 byte

Tested with latest stable CircuitPython and got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "code.py", line 34, in <module>
  File "/lib/adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py", line 588, in fill
  File "/lib/adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py", line 812, in _rect_helper
  File "/lib/adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py", line 190, in write_reg
  File "/lib/adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py", line 212, in write_data
  File "/lib/adafruit_ra8875/ra8875.py", line 212, in write_data
OverflowError: value must fit in 1 byte(s)

The arguments for set_window in RA8875Display class do not work as described.

The width and height parameters are not actually the width and the height of the window. If you set them both to 0 the windows is actually 1 pixel wide by 1 pixel high.

I believe either the description should be changed or the math should subtract 1 from the width and height when writing to the HEAW0 and VEAW0 respectively.

Incorrect parameter names and docstrings

First, the RA8875 driver board and library helped me complete my project, and I sincerely appreciate the effort that went into both.

I discovered that the parameter names for the _rect_helper method of the RA8875 class are inconsistent with the actual drawing behavior. The method signature is:

_rect_helper(self, x, y, width, height, color, filled)

However, the width and height parameters should really be the x- and y-coordinate of the endpoint--they are a second absolute x-y screen coordinate, rather than a width and height offset applied to the first screen coordinate. Page 120 of the RA8875 datasheet that is linked from the Adafruit product page confirms the registers written by this method are an endpoint coordinate, not width/height.

This parameter mislabeling carries through to the public methods of the same class that rely on the _rect_helper method, including at least the rect and fill_rect methods (but possibly others...these are just the ones I happened to use with confusing results).

I would suggest that the signature of the _rect_helper method be changed to be consistent with other methods like _triangle_helper:

_rect_helper(self, x1, y1, x2, y2, color, filled)

I would then suggest that the parameters and documentation for other methods like rect and fill_rect that currently specify a width/height be updated accordingly. By changing the parameter names and documentation, existing code (including the examples) that relies on the existing behavior will not be broken.

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