Emulator and GUI for my Hanover Flipdot Display driver

Live emulation demo

Install

git clone https://github.com/tuna-f1sh/flippy-flipdot-web
cd flippy-flipdot-web
npm install
node app.js --help

Emulate

node app.js --emulate
# Alternatively
npm run emulate

Debug

Pre-append DEBUG=flipdot*,ascii* to run commands, eg:

DEBUG=flipdot*,ascii* node app.js -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -r 7 -c 56

Notes

• See the node module for issues: https://github.com/tuna-f1sh/node-flipdot
• The display address must be correct for display attempting to be drive (default 0x05 is arbitary and should match internal pot position).
• The display rows and columns should be correct for display attempting to drive.
• Set the correct RS485 USB device port with --port

Whilst I have designed the code to theoretically scale to any display, it has not been hardware tested (I only have a 56x7). The flipdot-display might need some tweaking - PRs welcome!