pi-touch 0.1.0

Control PI Touch Screen with GPIO

PiTouchScreen

Programmatically control the Raspberry Pi Touch Display

Features

GPIO Control

With a button connected to pin 17:

• Cycle brightness between 50, 100, 150
• Long-press button for 1 second to turn off the screen

pi-touch-screen pi-touch-screen --channel 17 -bl 50 -bl 100 -bl 150 --power-sec 1 

Thread-safe

- `BacklightManager` provides thread-safe attribute access and thread-safe sysfs read/writes - Reading or setting values requires owning a lock - Prevents race conditions from threaded callbacks

Install as Service

• Save pi_touch_screen_service.service to $HOME/.config/systemd/user/pi_touch_screen_service.service
• Run systemctl --user edit pi_touch_screen_service and modify ExecStart to use your desired parameters
• Run systemctl --user enable pi_touch_screen_service to run the service at startup