Gurney wrote: > Hi board, > > I'm about to go ahead and buy this. My plan is to build an > XBMC/Squeezebox/Rsnapshot backup unit in my bedroom with a Raspberry Pi. > :) > > I've just one question, I can only find FT232RL in France, this model: > http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9115 > > > Would it be suitable for the OLED screen from digilentinc? > http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,719,1084&Prod=PMOD-OLED2 > > Thanks!
The FT232RL does not support MPSSE, so sorry that won't work. But the good news is that with the Raspberry Pi you can hook it up parallel, or SPI, directly with just wires and you do not need the FTDI adapter. I have not tested the PMOD-OLED2, but it should work just like mine. There are two signals BS0 and BS1 which select parallel or SPI bus. You can see this in the schematic on the Digilent page; the PMOD-OLED2 has them wired for parallel bus. If you want to hook up less wires to the Raspberry Pi you can use SPI bus, but you will need to put two jumper wires on the PMOD-OLED2 itself. I am thinking of some XBMC plug-in too as I am running that as well. Maybe when playing movies it will run a nowplaying for XBMC and when playing music it will run Jivelite. Anyway sounds like a fun project let me know if you need any more help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rpress's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31544 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98960 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
