DIY Digital Photo Frame

Once I stumbled upon the Orange Pi Zero Plus2, which comes with the following features and is perfect to setup a simple DIY Digital Photo Frame:

CPU: Cortax-A53 (4 64bit cores up to 816 MHz (H5))
Memory: 512MB
EMMC: 8GB
MicroSD Slot, HDMI, WIFI and more

TFA SINUS + te923tool

I have a small weather station, a TFA SINUS. Last year, I started to capture the data from the weather station. To do so, I needed a software that can communicate with the weather station. And that is where te923tool comes in handy.

In this article I will explain, how to install the te923tool and how to run it.

Framebuffer

Just some quick notes about framebuffer.

Clear screen

To clear the screen, write zeros on the framebuffer device with dd:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fb0
dd: writing to '/dev/fb0': No space left on device
301+0 records in
300+0 records out
153600 bytes (154 kB, 150 KiB) copied, 0.00251834 s, 61.0 MB/s