turing-smart-screen-python

Check out new version with system monitoring features!
Are you using your Turing Smart Screen for system monitoring? If so, check out the new pre-release 2.0.0 alpha 4 - 📊 System Monitor or the feature/system-monitoring branch! It contains embedded hardware monitoring functions, theme creation from configuration files, serial port auto-detection... See Release Notes to learn more about features and current limitations Python knowledges recommended.

⚠️ DISCLAIMER - PLEASE READ ⚠️

This project is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Turing brand, or any of its subsidiaries, affiliates, manufacturers or sellers of the Turing products. All product and company names are the registered trademarks of their original owners.

This project is an open-source alternative software, not the USBMonitor.exe original software for the Turing smart screen. There will be no support for the USBMonitor.exe software.

A simple Python manager for "Turing Smart Screen" 3.5" IPS USB-C (UART) display, also known as :

• Turing USB35INCHIPS / USB35INCHIPSV2
• 3.5 Inch Mini Screen
• 3.5 Inch 320*480 Mini Capacitive Touch Screen IPS Module

Hardware

The Turing Smart Screen is a 3.5" USB-C display that shows as a serial port once connected. It cannot be seen by the operating system as a monitor but pictures can be displayed on it.

There is 3 hardware revisions of the screen: how to identify my version? Version B and "flagship" use the same protocol.
A Windows-only software is available is provided by the vendor to manage this display. This software allows creating themes to display your computer sensors on the screen, but does not offer a simple way to display custom pictures or text.

Features

This Python script can do some simple operations on the Turing display like :

• Display custom picture
• Display text
• Display progress bar
• Screen rotation
• Clear the screen (blank) - HW version A only
• Turn the screen on/off - HW version A only
• Display soft reset - HW version A only
• Set brightness

Operating systems supported : macOS, Windows, Linux (incl. Raspberry Pi) and all OS that support Python3.7

Getting started

Python knowledges recommended.
Download this project by cloning it or using the Releases sections
Download and install the latest Python 3.x (min. 3.7) for your OS: https://www.python.org/downloads/
Plug your Turing display to your computer (install the drivers if on Windows)
Identify your hardware revision (version A or version B/flagship)
Open the mainVersionA.py or mainVersionB.py file and edit the COM_PORT variable to the port used by the display
Open a terminal and run python3 mainVersionA.py / mainVersionB.py or py -3 mainVersionA.py / mainVersionB.py depending on your OS
You should see animated content on your Turing display!

You can then edit the mainVersionA.py / mainVersionB.py file to change the content displayed, or use this file as a Python module for your personal Python project