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Takes a socket object and (str) payload with serialized protobuf. Sends payload to PiSCSI over socket and captures the response.

Sends a LOG_LEVEL command to the server. Takes (str) log_level as an argument. Returns (bool) status and (str) msg.

Set the pretty hostname for the system

Configure horizontal scrolling based on the configured screen dimensions.

Shows a splash screen for a given number of seconds.

Display the shutdown splash, then blank the screen after a sleep Finally shuts down the script

Shuts down the system

Sends a shutdown command to the system

Takes a (list) of (dict)s devices and returns a (list) of (dict)s. Sorts by SCSI ID acending (0 to 7). For SCSI IDs where no device is at

Returns True if object has completed its task and can be deleted

Updates the internal attributes wrt. to the encoder position and direction.

Method updates the display.

Method handling non-blocking event handling for the cycle buttons.

Takes (str) file_name Returns (dict) with (bool) status and (str) msg

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See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21001659/crc32-algorithm-implementation-in-c-without-a-look-up-table-and-with-a-public-li

This method returns a raw pointer because protobuf does not have support for smart pointers