Description

Project dedicated to creating a decoration consisting of an LED display and a Raspberry Pi controller.

Idea and Goal: The goal of the project is to create an interactive LED panel that will display selected information. Functions will be implemented in established phases:

Phase 1

• Current time
• Current/selected cryptocurrency prices
• Weather
• News
• Notifications

Phase 2 Integrated system for messages and interactions (proprietary voice bot Tedy) Note 1: The functionality of the model may be expanded in the future 📈

Image galery

Raspberry Pi Setup

1.Clone this repo and follow the setup instructions

2.Deal with flickering. In my case the solution was --led-slowdown-gpio=4 key

Milestones

- I established the connection to the PI through SSH. So cool 😎

using basic commands in rpi rgb project
sudo ./clock -f ../fonts/8x13.bdf -C 0,255,255 -B 0,0,0 --led-chain=2 -d "%A" -d "%H:%M:%S" --led-brightness=50 --led-slowdown-gpio=4
--led-slowdown-gpio=4 - this removed flickering!!!

Adjusted font, text is more centralized due to lower led-rows value
sudo ./scrolling-text-example -s 3 -l -1 -C 255,0,0 -f ../fonts/6x9.bdf "NICMAN <3" --led-rows=16 --led-cols=64 --led-brightness=50 --led-slowdown-gpio=4
nohup sudo ./clock -f ../fonts/7x14.bdf -C 120,150,255 -B 0,0,0 --led-chain=2 -d "%A" -d "%H:%M:%S" --led-brightness=50 --led-slowdown-gpio=4 --led-cols=30 > output.log 2>&1 &

Instructions

keys

fonts

Hardware requirements

- LED Panel - raspberry PI 4 - Zasialcz do RP - Karta pamięci 32GB z systemem RPOS - microHDMI-HDMI Approximate cost ~ 480 zł

Issues

1. Running clock through the shell, while closing ssh connection, breaks the command in shell and closes clock program from running. To resolve it use clock running in the background method
   a) Using 'nohup'
   
   b) using 'tmux'
   
   c) using 'screen'