I have been playing with the window LED display, fun things happened :)

[Greg Fenton]

Hi all (again)

For those that don't know, I have been playing with the LED sign in the window, using a bluetooth dongle and a Pi to send messages.

I have taken it a few steps further.

Iteration 1: Get a Pi talking to it from bash

Iteration 2: Update the sign using a cron job (scheduled task for those who like Microsoft terminology)

Iteration 3: Have a web frontend that you can send messages from

The frontend is not accessible remotely, only from someone logged into the internal network.

Currently it is showing the first chapter of "War Of The Worlds" by H G Wells. You know, because it can.

That should keep the car park attendants confused for a while :)

The frontend is available at http:/172.18.16.10:8000 (the media player's IP).

Please, please, please nothing inappropriate on the sign!

Greg

[Chris B]

Good job Greg :)

[Alistair MacDonald]

Good job indeed. Would we be interested in including any dynamic information? Weather forecast or news for example. I have most of the code from other projects so should be sable to create a feed quickly.

  Alistair

On 24 May 2015 10:56 am, "Chris B" <hnc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Good job Greg :)

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[Jon Davies]

Coded by hand? You used your hands? Pfft :)

Anyway, nice work!

I like the scheduled bit a lot. Hopefully people will be more informed about our various activities as a result.

[Greg Fenton]

I quite like the sound of dynamic updating, maybe we could rent the sign to next-door when they have events on?

[Iain Yarnall]

I've just tried the web front end and all I get is a blank page and a 500 error.

:(

Is there a service I can check the status of??

Cheers,

Iain.

[Greg Fenton]

Strange, maybe try a quick reboot of the pi?

Greg

[Iain Yarnall]

Just as I was enjoying the music!!

;)

[Iain Yarnall]

Sadly, no improvement after a reboot.

Cheers,

Iain.

[Greg Fenton]

I'll pop in and beat it with a blunt instrument :p

Greg

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[Greg Fenton]

I have uploaded a new version of the webpage to my server, it should have grabbed it by now.

Just a missing bracket :P

[Jon Davies]

Gurr those pesky bracketses!!! Close second to semi-colonseses!!1!
:)

[Alistair MacDonald]

Another bigger probblem is that it is completly out of storag space on
the SD card. This might explain why it crashed when I tried to turn
the volume down and why it has been refusing to start half the time. I
am now trying to remove packages that are not needed inclusing X
windows, cups, git, etc without accidentally removing ones that are
needed.

Alistair

[Alistair MacDonald]

We have freed 13%. Not much, but enough. Some things might still be
broken but it plays music, updates the web site, andupdates the sign.
We can fire figth anthing else. Also there is an error in one of the
service files that we should perhaps fix at some point.

The radio clock is broken now but I have taken it off as the Internet
connecting is reliable now.

Alistair



On 27 May 2015 at 17:20, Alistair MacDonald

[Greg Fenton]

I'll drop in one of my 8 or 16GB SD cards and duplicate the existing one, no point struggling for the sake of something I lose to the hoover on a regular basis anyway :P

Greg

I'd have been in tonight but I have a massive headache.

[David Pye]

I wanted to click Like on this but there wasn't a button....

[Alistair MacDonald]

You like Greg having a headache? You can go off some people you know. :-P

We should also take another backup image at the same time. Unfortunately taking the card out is a lot easer said than done so it has not been done for an age.

  Alistair