Spike: Figure out how to make the SOHO display work

[ke4roh]

Get one of these and hook it up to a Raspberry Pi.

1. Figure out what it displays during boot and afterward
2. What window manager is appropriate for just taking over the screen?
3. What technology should we use to render the screen? HTML? TclTk? Other?
4. Render a demo screen with a tornado warning

[ke4roh]

I talked to web developer Michael Clayton at Red Hat, and his recommendation was to use a startup script to kick off a web browser in fullscreen mode. This is feasible. Is there a security concern about being able to hack the thing from the keyboard?
He also mentioned Boot to QT

[ke4roh]

I'm worried that display won't work in conjunction with the radio because they both use GPIO and it's not entirely clear to me that they won't step on each other. There is a "display" port, which is DSI, Several options/details here: http://elinux.org/RPi_Screens#Interfacing_to_non-monitor_LCD_panels We'll have to check this and see if it would be straightforward to switch out pins (for the radio wouldn't be too hard, I think, but for the display might be harder if it requires a special kernel.)

[ke4roh]

I have one of these Adafruit 2.8" displays. Testing forthcoming.

[ke4roh]

With an SDR (issue 19) the GPIO pins are free and the Adafruit display should work without incident.

[Homa]

Getting started...

[CharlotteRose]

Hello Scoots here - gonna see what I can do!