Welcome to PiFace Control and Display (CAD)’s documentation!

The pifacecad Python module provides functions and classes for interacting with PiFace Control and Display.

Note

You may need to fiddle with the contrast settings in order to see characters on the screen. Turn the small screw located by the GPIO pins on PiFaceCAD.

PiFace Control and Display has eight inputs switches, and IR receiver and an HD44780 LCD.

Links:

• Blog
• GitHub
• C Library
• Custom Bitmaps Generator

Contents:

• Installation
  • SysInfo Service
• Examples
  • Basic usage
  • IR Receiver
  • Interrupts
• Included Examples
  • Internet Radio
  • Hangman
  • Traintimes
  • Tweets
  • Weather
• Creating Custom Bitmaps
• Tools
  • Question
  • Scanf
• LIRC
  • Setting up the Infrared Receiver
  • Configuring LIRC
  • irexec
  • python-lirc
  • PiFace CAD
• Reference (PiFace CAD)
  • pifacecad.core
  • pifacecad.ir
  • pifacecad.lcd
• Reference (PiFace CAD Tools)
  • pifacecad.tools.question
  • pifacecad.tools.scanf

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page