OrangePi5 OLEDStats

[allatutti]

If someone is interested can easy setup OledStats for OrangePi5 and SSD1306

 

Hardware:
Orangepi5
SSD1306 OLED display

Software
Armbian Jammy KDE Neon 6.1.43
Files attached in ZIP archive
device.py

PixelOperator.ttf
setup.py
stats.py

How to:

1) add overlay

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orangepi-xunlong/linux-orangepi/orange-pi-5.10-rk3588/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/overlay/rk3588-i2c5-m3.dts

sudo armbian-add-overlay rk3588-i2c5-m3.dts

reboot

2) connect OLED display to I2C5 M3 Pins SDA + SCL (pins 1(VCC),2(SDA),3(SCL) and 5(GND))
check connection

sudo i2cdetect -y 5

must be detected 3c value

 

3) install needed libs
 

sudo apt-get install i2c-tools python3-smbus python3-pip python3-dev python3-pil

4) download main karabek project

git clone https://github.com/karabek/OrangePi-OLED

cd OrangePi-OLED

rename old setup.py

mv setup.py setup_old.py

 

4) create new setup.py or copy from ZIP archive

nano setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    name="ssd1306",
    version="0.1.0",
    author="Richard Hull",
    author_email="richard.hull@destructuring-bind.org",
    description="A small library to drive an OLED device with either SSD1306 or SH1106 chipset",
    license="MIT",
    keywords="raspberry pi rpi oled ssd1306 sh1106",
    url="https://github.com/rm-hull/ssd1306",
    packages=['oled'],
)

 

5) Start setup.py

sudo python3 setup.py sdist

6) copy generated folders to python3 dist packages
 

sudo cp -r OrangePi-OLED/oled/ /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/

sudo cp -r OrangePi-OLED/ssd1306.egg-info/ /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/

 

7) replace device.py file with file in ZIP archive in dist-packages oled folder

cd /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/oled

mv device.py device_old.py

 

9) copy stats.py and font file PixelOperator.ttf from ZIP archive

start stats.py file

sudo python3 stats.py

result should be same as on RPI device
picture


 

Orangepi5_OLED.zip

[compent]

Very nice and with clearly laid out installation instructions.

[allatutti]

OLED stats working also in debian, you need to activate I2C5 M3 overlay in orangepi-config

[allatutti]

For older Kernel Linux orangepi5 5.10.160-rockchip-rk3588
you will need to install python3-psutil

sudo apt install python3-psutil

 

 

[habro]

"OLED stats working also in debian, you need to activate I2C5 M3 overlay in orangepi-config"

 

By doing above, do you still need to execute point #1 (add overlay) from original instructions?

 

 

Edited May 19 by habro

[allatutti]

nope with original orangepi debian image you dint need to do point 1. Only go to orangepi-config and enable I2C5 M3 there.

Edited May 20 by allatutti