Pwnagotchi output via HDMI VS PADD

Are you getting a flash each a data/screen refresh takes place? I am able to see the terminal background with the j character that is written in https://github.com/solution-libre/pwnagotchi-hdmi-viewer/blob/master/pwnagotchi-viewer-next each time there is a refresh.

There does look to be a HDMI output plugin here, although I cant see any development on it since 2021: https://github.com/solution-libre/pwnagotchi-hdmi-viewer

Did you try this? pwnagatchi HDMI viewer

Yeah, I was thinking about making a PiHole version this weekend. But in the meantime, there's also PADD which does something similar for PiHole :)

Looking at https://github.com/pi-hole/PADD/blob/master/padd.sh - the value of $cpu is likely not set correctly. Check for the directories, files and logic that is being used to set it - lines 164 to 172. You could add a 'set -xv' before line 164 to see the output of these commands as the script runs.

Pi-Hole has the PADD project that displays app + system info on the console.

There is a note here about it being run in a loop and a bug report here about the screen only updating and not being cleared so it may be the execution method or something outside the application clearing the screen (either with a clear or scrolling the data off the screen).

PADD is probably written to fit whichever screen mode it's set to, but that definitely appears to be a 4:3 ratio one, which is a pretty normal default that can likely be changed to better fit the screen. If you change the console display mode, there's a good chance PADD will try to fit that. If it doesn't, if for example PADD switches away from a mode that fits your entire screen, that'd be a good thing to report to the author on the GitHub page for PADD.

With PADD