IntroductionΒΆ

Interfacing OLED matrix displays with the SSD1306, SSD1325, SSD1331 or SH1106 driver in Python 2 or 3 using I2C/SPI on the Raspberry Pi and other linux-based single-board computers: the library provides a Pillow-compatible drawing canvas, and other functionality to support:

  • scrolling/panning capability,
  • terminal-style printing,
  • state management,
  • color/greyscale (where supported),
  • dithering to monochrome

The SSD1306 display pictured below is 128 x 64 pixels, and the board is tiny, and will fit neatly inside the RPi case.

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See also

Further technical information for the specific devices can be found in the datasheets below:

Benchmarks for tested devices can be found in the wiki.

As well as display drivers for various physical OLED devices there are emulators that run in real-time (with pygame) and others that can take screenshots, or assemble animated GIFs, as per the examples below (source code for these is available in the luma.examples git repository:

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