Wedge Raspberry Pi TouchScreen Holder
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I use Volumio for my music playback and had been looking for a way to use the touchscreen interface for when my computer is switched off.
For a while I looked for some solution that was reasonably elegant and found it in amason101070's screen mount. I took the screen mount itself and designed a wedge that it can slot into. I have issue with my network and sometimes it drops and the Pi doesn't get back on. Before the screen I used a button and a Python script so I could safely reboot the machine. Now I don't need it as it can be down with the touchscreen. However something I did want is the ability to control the backlight levels. So I retasked the script and button so it now a short press cycles through 3 levels of backlight and a 2 second hold turns the backlight off. I used a button with ring LED and the LED is connected to a GPIO pin 13 and allows for PWM so the LED 'breaths' when the screen is turned off. Also when turning the screen off, the music will be paused (if playing) an
For a while I looked for some solution that was reasonably elegant and found it in amason101070's screen mount. I took the screen mount itself and designed a wedge that it can slot into. I have issue with my network and sometimes it drops and the Pi doesn't get back on. Before the screen I used a button and a Python script so I could safely reboot the machine. Now I don't need it as it can be down with the touchscreen. However something I did want is the ability to control the backlight levels. So I retasked the script and button so it now a short press cycles through 3 levels of backlight and a 2 second hold turns the backlight off. I used a button with ring LED and the LED is connected to a GPIO pin 13 and allows for PWM so the LED 'breaths' when the screen is turned off. Also when turning the screen off, the music will be paused (if playing) an
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