# Led-Badge-44x11 Upload tool for an led name tag with USB-HID interface ![LED Mini Board](photos/blueBadge.jpg) Added Accentuated french Characters ![French LED Mini Board](photos/accentuated.gif) ## Hardware The types supported by this project have an array of - 44 x 11 LEDs or - 48 x 12 LEDs. The manufacturer is probably https://lesun-led.en.alibaba.com/ In both configurations, the badge identifies itself on the USB as idVendor=0416, idProduct=5020 Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 LSicroelectronics LS32 Custm HID ## Warning There are many different versions of LED Badges on the market. This one uses an USB-HID interface, while others use USB-Serial (see references below). ## Command Line Installation and Usage ### User access to badge on all Linuxes The following will install a udev rule allowing anybody read/write access to the badge via USB. sudo cp 99-led-badge-44x11.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger ### Required dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu Systems #### Using Debian/Ubuntu packages (recommended): sudo apt install python3-usb python3-pil #### manually using a python virtual environment Using a venv will allow to use pip to install dependencies without the danger that the installed modules will interfere with the system installed ones. sudo apt install python3-venv python3 -m venv ledtag source ledtag/bin/activate pip install pyhidapi pyusb pillow # this should now work: # python3 led-badge-11x44.py -m 6 -s 8 "Hello" "World!" if the udev rules are installed, you should be able to access the badge without sudo / root privileges. To reuse the venv again at a later point: source ledtag/bin/activate python3 led-badge-11x44.py … ### Required dependencies on Fedora Systems sudo dnf install hidapi python3-hidapi python3-pillow python3-pyusb ### Required dependencies on Mac Systems sudo easy_install pip pip install pyhidapi pip install pillow ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null brew install hidapi or Try with `pip3 install pyhidapi` ### Required dependencies on Windows 10 Download win/inf-wizard.exe to your desktop. Right click 'Run as Administrator' -> Click 0x0416 0x5020 LS32 Custm HID -> Next -> Next -> Documents LS32_Sustm_HID.inf -> Save (we don't need that file) -> Install Now... -> Driver Install Complete -> OK Download python from python.org [x] install Launcher for all Users [x] Add Python 3.7 to PATH -> Click the 'Install Now ...' text message. Run cmd.exe as Administrator, enter: pip install pyusb pip install pillow ### Required dependencies on Windows 7 Download win/win32-bin-1.2.6.0.zip to your desktop. Extract. Find the inf-wizard.exe in the bin folder. Right click 'Run as Administrator' Then continue as with windows 10 above. #### Examples: Sudo may or may not be needed for accessing the USB device, depending on your system. sudo python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py "Hello World!" loads the text 'Hello World!' as the first message, and scrolls it from right to left (default scroll mode=0) and speed 4 (default). After an upload the device shows the first message once and returns to the charging screen if still connected to USB. Either pull the plug or press the small button next to the USB connector. sudo python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py -m 6 -s 8 "Hello" "World!" loads the text 'Hello' as message one and 'World!' as message two. Compare the difference in quoting to the previous example. Up to 8 messages can be uploaded. This example uses mode 6, which drops the words with a nice little animation vertically into the display area. Speed is set to maximum here, for smoothness. Per default you will only see 'Hello'. To see all messages, press the small button next to the USB connector multiple times, until you briefly see 'M1-8'. Now the display loops through all uploaded messages. sudo python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py -m 5 :gfx/fablabnbg_logo_44x11.png: loads a fullscreen still image. Avoid whitespace between colons and name. If you receive a message `ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging'`, then try to update the corresponding package: `sudo pip install -U Pillow` sudo python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py "I:HEART2:my:gfx/fablab_logo_16x11.png:fablab:1:" uses one builtin and one loaded image. The heart is builtin, and the fablab-logo is loaded from file. The fablab logo is used twice, once before the word 'fablab' and again behind through the reference ':1:' (which references the first loaded image). ![LED Mini Board](photos/love_my_fablab.jpg) sudo python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py -s7 -m0,1 :bicycle: :bicycle_r: shows a bicycle crossing the display in left-to-right and right-to-left (as a second message). If you select the 'M1-8' mode, the bike permanently runs back and forth the display. You may add a short message to one or both, to make it appear the bike is pulling the text around. ![LED Mini Board](photos/bicycle.gif) sudo python3 ./led-badge-11-x44.py -b0,1 -s1 -m5 " :heart2: :HEART2:" " :HEART2:" shows a simple animation of a slowly beating heart on the first message, and a blinking heart on the second message. ./led-badge-11x44.py -B 50 -m 0 -s 8 "Bonjour à toutes et à tous" "Bienvenu(e)s en Master 2 EEA ISHM" "Ingénierie des systèmes Humains Machines" "Bonne réussite à votre promotion 2023-2024" ![M2 ishm](photos/m2ishm.gif) python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py --list-names prints the list of builtin icon names, including :happy: :happy2: :heart: :HEART: :heart2: :HEART2: :fablab: :bicycle: :bicycle_r: :owncloud: :: python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py --help prints some condensed help: 
usage: led-badge-11x44.py [-h] [-t TYPE] [-s SPEED] [-B BRIGHTNESS] [-m MODE] [-b BLINK] [-a ANTS] [-l] MESSAGE [MESSAGE ...]

Upload messages or graphics to a 11x44 led badge via USB HID.
Version 0.12 from https://github.com/jnweiger/led-name-badge-ls32
 -- see there for more examples and for updates.

positional arguments:
  MESSAGE               Up to 8 message texts with embedded builtin icons or loaded images within colons(:) -- See -l for a list of builtins

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TYPE, --type TYPE  Type of display: supported values are 12x48 or (default) 11x44. Rename the program to led-badge-12x48, to switch the default.
  -s SPEED, --speed SPEED
                        Scroll speed (Range 1..8). Up to 8 comma-separated values
  -B BRIGHTNESS, --brightness BRIGHTNESS
                        Brightness for the display in percent: 25, 50, 75, or 100
  -m MODE, --mode MODE  Up to 8 mode values: Scroll-left(0) -right(1) -up(2) -down(3); still-centered(4); animation(5); drop-down(6); curtain(7);
                        laser(8); See '--mode-help' for more details.
  -b BLINK, --blink BLINK
                        1: blinking, 0: normal. Up to 8 comma-separated values
  -a ANTS, --ants ANTS  1: animated border, 0: normal. Up to 8 comma-separated values
  -l, --list-names      list named icons to be embedded in messages and exit

Example combining image and text:
 sudo ./led-badge-11x44.py "I:HEART2:you"
## Related References (for USB-Serial devices) * https://github.com/Caerbannog/led-mini-board * http://zunkworks.com/projects/programmablelednamebadges/ * https://github.com/DirkReiners/LEDBadgeProgrammer * https://bitbucket.org/bartj/led/src * http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1440 * https://github.com/stoggi/ledbadge