Friday, September 19, 2014

Display CPU Frequency monitor on Raspberry Pi Task Bar

To enable CPUFreq frontend applet on your Raspberry Pi taskbar to monitor CPU frequency:




  • Right click Task Bar
  • Select Add/Remove Panel Items
  • Select CPU Usage Monitor, click Add.
  • CPUFreq frontend, click Add.

CPUFreq frontend applet will be added on your Task Bar. To monitor your CPU frequency, move mouse hover over the CPUFreq frontend applet.


Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Python + bottle@Raspberry Pi: Web based GPIO control

This example show how to program in Python with bottle on Raspberry Pi, to implement web base GPIO control.

bottle is a Python web server library. To install bottle on Raspberry Pi, enter the command:
$ sudo apt-get install python-bottle


Create webled.py
from bottle import route, run
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

host = '192.168.1.105'

pinButton = 17
pinLed = 18
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
# pin 17 as input with pull-up resistor
GPIO.setup(pinButton, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
# pin 18 as output
GPIO.setup(pinLed, GPIO.OUT)

LedState = False

def read_button():
    if GPIO.input(pinButton):
        return 'Released'
    else:
        return 'Pressed'

def update_led():
    GPIO.output(pinLed, LedState)
    
def toggleLed():
    global LedState
    LedState = not LedState
    
@route('/')
@route('/<arg>')
def index(arg=""):
    if arg == "toggle":
        toggleLed()
        
    update_led()
    
    response = "<html>\n"
    response += "<body>\n"
    response += "<script>\n"
    response += "function changed()\n"
    response += "{window.location.href='/toggle'}\n"
    response += "</script>\n"
    
    response += "Button: " + read_button() +"\n"
    response += "<br/><br/>\n"
    response += "<input type='button' onClick='changed()' value=' LED '/>\n"
    response += "</body></html>\n"
    return response
    
run(host=host, port=80)

Run it:
$ sudo python webled.py



Related:
- Web control to display on Pi connected LCD Module, with Python and bottle