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LED Badge

ledbadge is a script to control a B1248 LED Name Badge (http://www.tbdled.com/en/productshow.asp?ID=P385U64S7U)

The USB driver is just a generic Virtual Serial port driver from Prolific PL2303 (VID:067B, PID:2303)

Dependencies

Features

Currently it can only send text and clear the display (by sending an empty string).

Usage

$ ledbadge --help
usage: ledbadge [-h] [-v | -q] [--loglvl {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}]
                [--logfile LOGFILE] [--logfmt LOGFMT]
                [--serial-port SERIAL_PORT]
                {clear,text} ...

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         Increse logging output
  -q, --quiet           Decrease logging output
  --serial-port SERIAL_PORT, -s SERIAL_PORT
                        (default: /dev/tty.usbserial)

Available subcommands:
  {clear,text}
    clear               Clear the LED screen
    text                Display text on the LED screen

logging:
  Detailed control of logging output

  --loglvl {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}
                        Set explicit log level
  --logfile LOGFILE     Ouput log messages to file
  --logfmt LOGFMT       Log message format

TODO: