Add display toggle switch

[danialre]

Hello,

Thanks for your wonderful project! I just finished building it, and I found that I wanted to turn the display off at night, without having to SSH in and stop/start the systemd service. Here are the changes:

• Migrate the GPIO library (used in the loading LED scene) to gpiozero, which should have better support for future Pis
• Add documentation and GPIO support for a toggle switch (connected to ground) to enable/disable the display - it really pauses and restarts the Animator so the script doesn't have to restart
• Tweak some scenes (weather, clock, date, day) to handle the Animator stopping and starting
• Add a user check to options.disable_hardware_pulsing for users that choose to run as root - I am using a Zero W and found that it doesn't have the horsepower without hardware PWM

I'm happy to make further changes/rollbacks as desired. Thanks again!

[ColinWaddell]

Awesome! This is a really great idea My apologies in advance if this takes me a couple of weeks to get reviewed and merged. I’m mega busy at the real job just now, but I promise as soon as I’ve got a chance I’ll give this a proper look All the best!

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-- Colin colinwaddell.com <https://www.colinwaddell.com>

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 at 17:13, Danial Ebling ***@***.***> wrote: Hello, Thanks for your wonderful project! I just finished building it, and I found that I wanted to turn the display off at night, without having to SSH in and stop/start the systemd service. Here are the changes: - Migrate the GPIO library (used in the loading LED scene) to gpiozero, which should have better support for future Pis - Add documentation and GPIO support for a toggle switch (connected to ground) to enable/disable the display - it really pauses and restarts the Animator so the script doesn't have to restart - Tweak some scenes (weather, clock, date, day) to handle the Animator stopping and starting - Add a user check to options.disable_hardware_pulsing for users that choose to run as root - I am using a Zero W and found that it doesn't have the horsepower without hardware PWM I'm happy to make further changes/rollbacks as desired. Thanks again! ------------------------------ You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at: #23 Commit Summary - 9105762 <9105762> migrate to gpiozero - 3ac4f46 <3ac4f46> add switch GPIO for enabling/disabling display, added hooks to reset/restart scenes File Changes (9 files <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files>) - *M* README.md <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5> (13) - *M* display/__init__.py <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-f903c182129a11ab5e8b539681003fdce9f6165d7f7c870b1f701b48c457aa3b> (36) - *M* requirements.txt <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-4d7c51b1efe9043e44439a949dfd92e5827321b34082903477fd04876edb7552> (2) - *M* scenes/clock.py <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-6f19c93d9ad0360369087ef434c2dfe66794848fc3a7091e7e65e6ad9800bc60> (2) - *M* scenes/date.py <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-425ed1e851aad5b370fab4efbff9415dafe6c8b7ffd5f21e79b2774e949b2ee7> (2) - *M* scenes/day.py <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-977cb71ff6a8efdb3c991d8f639fd9f2b5636af35c5117acaf297f5783e9f16b> (2) - *M* scenes/loadingled.py <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-6e33d290627c0956d18cf737e033038f0551e280cd7eb8cbfc488be8db687eef> (19) - *M* scenes/weather.py <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-48a05fc849a355bf927ed4141803200b5a831147c3e0601e87e7b7aebb00bcb1> (2) - *M* utilities/animator.py <https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23/files#diff-e34e8e59c3c492dfd7fd761d7b55185c9f3a403f1b702dae30fac20742b64f22> (66) Patch Links: - https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23.patch - https://github.com/ColinWaddell/FlightTracker/pull/23.diff — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#23>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAODIBLWDKN32K77FS5CXN33W2CTRAVCNFSM6AAAAACIX5HFV6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZTGQ4TSNZUGY3DCNI> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[danialre]

No worries! I'm running this already, so if I run into any issues I'll just add more commits.
Please note that I am not running the Weather or Rainfall scenes, so I haven't tested with those yet