Luma.OLED: Display drivers for SSD1306 / SSD1309 / SSD1322 / SSD1325 / SSD1327 / SSD1331 / SSD1351 / SSD1362 / SH1106 / SH1107

• Introduction
  • Examples and Emulators
• Installation
• Hardware
  • I2C vs. SPI vs Parallel
  • Identifying your interface
  • I2C
  • SPI
  • Parallel
• Software
  • Installing Dependencies
  • Permissions
• Python usage
  • Color Model
• Upgrade
  • 3.6.0
  • 3.4.0
  • 2.0.0
• API Documentation
  • luma.oled.device
• Troubleshooting
  • Corrupted display due to using incorrect driver
• References

Contributing

Pull requests (code changes / documentation / typos / feature requests / setup) are gladly accepted. If you are intending to introduce some large-scale changes, please get in touch first to make sure we’re on the same page: try to include a docstring for any new method or class, and keep method bodies small, readable and PEP8-compliant. Add tests and strive to keep the code coverage levels high.

GitHub

The source code is available to clone at: https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.oled

Contributors

• Thijs Triemstra (@thijstriemstra)
• Christoph Handel (@fragfutter)
• Boeeerb (@Boeeerb)
• xes (@xes)
• Roger Dahl (@rogerdahl)
• Václav Šmilauer (@eudoxos)
• Claus Bjerre (@bjerrep)
• Vx Displays LLC (@VxGeeks)
• Christopher Arndt (@SpotlightKid)
• Sascha Walther (@leragequit)
• Marcus Kellerman (@sharkusk)
• Phil Howard (@gadgetoid)
• @wjgeorge
• Doug Burrell (@doug-burrell)
• Xavier Carcelle (@xcarcelle)
• Dhrone (@dhrone)
• George Harker (@georgeharker)
• @Pako2
• Graeme Smecher (@gsmecher)
• Romit Raj (@QuicksandDesignStudio)

ChangeLog

Version	Description	Date
3.13.0	Add support for 128x128 SH1107	2023/08/12
3.12.0	Fix 96x16 OLED panel offset	2023/03/19
3.11.0	Add support for SH1107 greyscale OLED	2023/01/26
3.10.0	Fix SSD1322 NHD initialization and encode each pixel as 4bit+4bit identical nibbles	2022/11/14
3.9.0	Use native namespace package configuration Drop support for Python 3.6	2022/10/19
3.8.1	Fix mutable default parameter bug when using multiple displays	2020/11/15
3.8.0	Improved diff_to_previous framebuffer performance	2020/11/06
3.7.0	Drop support for Python 3.5, only 3.6 or newer is supported now Add support for SSD1351 128x96 display Pin luma.core to 1.x.y line only, in anticipation of performance improvements in upcoming major release	2020/10/25
3.6.0	Add support for Winstar OLED displays	2020/09/24
3.5.0	Drop support for Python 2.7, only 3.5 or newer is supported now	2020/07/04
3.4.0	Add support for SSD1362 256x64 Greyscale OLED	2020/01/19
3.3.0	Namespace fix	2019/06/19
3.2.1	Fix bug where SSD1325 framebuffer=diff_to_prev didn’t set column address properly, resulting in garbled output	2019/04/30
3.2.0	Add support for 128x64 OLED (Newhaven SSD1322_NHD))	2019/04/17
3.1.1	Fix bug where SSD1327 framebuffer=diff_to_prev didn’t set column address properly, resulting in garbled output Minor API documentation improvements	2019/03/30
3.1.0	Add support for 128x64 monochrome OLED (SSD1309)	2018/12/21
3.0.1	Fix bug where SSD1325/1327 didn’t handle framebuffer properly	2018/12/21
3.0.0	BREAKING Fix SSD1351 init sequence didn’t set RGB/BGR color order properly. Users of this device should verify proper color rendering and add bgr=True if blue/red color components appear to be reversed Device consolidation - greyscale and colour SSD13xx devices now share common base classes.	2018/12/02
2.5.1	Fix bug where SSD1331/1351 didn’t render green accurately	2018/09/14
2.5.0	Add support form 128x128 Monochrome OLED (SH1106) (by @Gadgetoid) Dependency and documentation updates Minor packaging changes	2018/09/07
2.4.1	Fix bug where SSD1327 init sequence exceeds serial command size	2018/05/28
2.4.0	Support for 128x128 4-bit OLED (SSD1327)	2018/04/18
2.3.2	Support for 96x96 color OLED (SSD1351)	2018/03/03
2.3.1	Changed version number to inside luma/oled/__init__.py	2017/11/23
2.3.0	Support for 128x128 color OLED (SSD1351)	2017/10/30
2.2.12	Explicitly state ‘UTF-8’ encoding in setup when reading files	2017/10/18
2.2.11	Update dependencies Additional troubleshooting documentation	2017/09/19
2.2.10	Add support for 128x32 mode for SH1106	2017/05/01
2.2.9	luma.core 0.9.0 or newer is required now Documentation amends	2017/04/22
2.2.8	SSD1331 & SSD1322 framebuffer & API docstrings	2017/04/13
2.2.7	Add support for 64x32 SSD1306 OLED	2017/04/12
2.2.6	Add support for 64x48 SSD1306 OLED	2017/03/30
2.2.5	Restrict exported Python symbols from luma.oled.device	2017/03/02
2.2.4	Tweaked SSD1325 init settings & replaced constants Update dependencies	2017/02/17
2.2.3	Monochrome rendering on SSD1322 & SSD1325	2017/02/14
2.2.2	SSD1325 performance improvements (perfloop: 25.50 –> 34.31 FPS) SSD1331 performance improvements (perfloop: 34.64 –> 51.89 FPS)	2017/02/02
2.2.1	Support for 256x64 4-bit greyscale OLED (SSD1322) Improved API documentation (shows inherited members)	2017/01/29
2.1.0	Simplify/optimize SSD1306 display logic	2017/01/22
2.0.1	Moved examples to separate git repo Add notes about breaking changes	2017/01/15
2.0.0	Package rename to luma.oled (Note: Breaking changes)	2017/01/11
1.5.0	Performance improvements for SH1106 driver (2x frame rate!) Support for 4-bit greyscale OLED (SSD1325) Landscape/portrait orientation with rotate=N parameter	2017/01/09
1.4.0	Add savepoint/restore functionality Add terminal functionality Canvas image dithering Additional & improved examples Load config settings from file (for examples) Universal wheel distribution Improved/simplified error reporting Documentation updates	2016/12/23
1.3.1	Add ability to adjust brightness of screen Fix for wrong value NORMALDISPLAY for SSD1331 device	2016/12/11
1.3.0	Support for 16-bit color OLED (SSD1331) Viewport/scrolling support Remove pygame as an install dependency in setup Ensure SH1106 device collapses color images to monochrome Fix for emulated devices: do not need cleanup Fix to allow gifanim emulator to process 1-bit images Establish a single threadpool for all virtual viewports Fix issue preventing multiple threads from running concurrently Documentation updates	2016/12/11
1.2.0	Add support for 128x32, 96x16 OLED screens (SSD1306 chipset only) Fix boundary condition error when supplying max-frames to gifanim Bit pattern calc rework when conveting color -> monochrome Approx 20% performance improvement in display method	2016/12/08
1.1.0	Add animated-GIF emulator Add color-mode flag to emulator Fix regression in SPI interface Rename emulator transform option ‘scale’ to ‘identity’	2016/12/05
1.0.0	Add HQX scaling to capture and pygame emulators SPI support (NOTE: contains breaking changes) Improve benchmarking examples Fix resource leakage & noops on emulated devices Additional tests	2016/12/03
0.3.5	Pygame-based device emulator & screen capture device emulator Add bouncing balls demo, clock & Space Invaders examples Auto cleanup on exit Add bounding_box attribute to devices Demote buffer & pages attributes to “internal use” only Replaced SH1106 data sheet with version that is not “preliminary” Add font attribution Tests for SSD1306 & SSH1106 devices Add code coverage & upload to coveralls.io flake8 code compliance Documentation updates	2016/11/30
0.3.4	Performance improvements - render speeds ~2x faster Documentation updates	2016/11/15
0.3.3	Add PyPi badge Use smbus2	2016/11/15
0.3.2	Fix bug in maze example (integer division on python 3) Use latest pip Add tox & travis config (+ badge) Add RTFD config Documentation updates	2016/11/13
0.3.1	Adjust requirements (remove smbus) Default RTFD theme Documentation updates	2016/11/13
0.3.0	Allow SMBus implementation to be supplied Add show, hide and clear methods Catch & rethrow IOError exceptions Fix error in ‘hello world’ example Cleanup imports Allow setting width/height Documentation updates	2016/11/13
0.2.0	Add Python 3 support Add options to demos Micro-optimizations Remove unused optional arg Fix bug in rendering image data Added more examples Add setup file Support SH1106 Documentation updates	2016/09/06

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