dispmanx 0.0.1

Libraty providing a buffer interface to your Raspberry Pi's GPU layer. Usable with pygame, PIL and other graphics libraries.

DispmanX Bindings for Python

Documentation | Python Package Index

This is a Python library for interacting with the Raspberry Pi's DispmanX video API. Some use cases for this are,

• Directly writing to the lowlevel graphics layer of your Pi with relatively high performance (for Python). There's no need to install X11.
• Small pygame or Pillow-based applications can be overlayed onto the screen, with full support for transparency.

This library uses ctypes to directly interact with your Raspberry Pi's bcm_host.so library.

Usage

See the Quickstart section in the docs.

TODO List

• Publish package to PyPI
• Add API docs using MkDocs, Material for MkDocs, and mkdocstrings
• Allow multiple layers
• Support additional pixel types
• Support custom dimensions and offsets – API supports it, but requires weird multiples of 16 or 32, as documented here. This requires testing, because anecdotally it seems to work with smaller multiples.
• Test run over SSH onto my home pi