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I Ching Hexagrams Week 6/7 Part 1

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Introduction

This is the first part of a blog covering Weeks 6 & 7, as i did not have time to publish last week owing to having to complete a report for work.  Not much to report, except that i have managed to take on board some of Enrico's (Balearic Dynamics) comments on my first set of menus.

 

The PiFaceCAD is a bit cramped for what i am trying to produce, but i am getting there.  Multilevel menu code in Python is now available in a public repository on GitHub:

 

https://github.com/TaoDude/Shared_I_Ching.git:

 

Any comments are welcome.  I will post a video of what it looks like later, once i have edited it.

  • in reply to taodude

    Hello Trevor,

     

    no problem, I was just noticing this as I am curious and I have immediately tried your software. Glad if my comment was helpful. If you want an alternative to the (sad) menu offered by the piface cad take a look to the template mechanism I have implemented on the Meditech project.

     

    Cheers, Enrico.

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Hi Enrico.

     

    I realised that people would have the problem that you noticed, but have only just been able to update the github repository.

     

    Unfortunately I was taken ill shortly after i posted the first part of this update.  Nothing serious, but with that and having to go out to a meeting yesterday evening i was not able to log onto my PC for a couple of days. 

     

    Today I have posted an update on the Github repository explaining that the IR element has not been tested and how to get around the glitch that you have found.  Below is the relevant text from the updated readme file.  Hopefully you will be able to run the code now.

     

    Public code from the Sci-Fi your Pi Design competition I Ching Hexagrams entry. This project contains elements of software produced by the vendors of the PiFaceCAD add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. The vendors of the board have applied the GPL V3 license to their code, so I have passed that license on to anyone who wishes to make use of my code.

    Please note that the IR element is untested. If you don't intend to use it, it is probably best to comment the section out or delete it.

    The code expects a file called ichinglircrc in /usr/share/doc/scifipi-i-ching so that the lircrc file for other applications can be left unaltered. If you are adapting the code for a different use, you will need to modify the line:

    lircrc="/usr/share/doc/scifipi-i-ching/ichinglircrc")

    to point at your application's lircrc file.

     

    Apologies for the omission.

    Regards,

    Trevor

  • Hello Trevor,

     

    thank you for the appreciation of my advices image I have downloaded the source from the GitHub and tried to install on two different PI, one with the emulator installed too and one with the physical PiFaceCAD. I have done the standard installation of the software to make running tests so I suppose that all the PiFaceCAD python components and core libraries are ok (suppose but I am not sure as I have not investigated in depth). On this PI I have also tested the demos of the display that come with the packages installation.

    Then after I have installed your program I get an error on the lirc library (that is the part controlling the IR remote controller. Maybe that you have installed some custom parameter that is not mentioned ?

    As far as what I supposed the program should run "as-is" immediately on any standard PiFaceCAD installation.

     

    Hope this will be helpful.

     

    Enrico