The Board

An LED matrix mounted above my TV to display information in a harder to read format.

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Made with:

Raspberry PiAdafruit LED MatrixADS-B ReceiverMQTTSQLiteHonoCloudflare Tunnelsrpi-led-matrix

Messages

Send a message to The Board

Feel like letting me know something that can fit within 24 characters? Or just want to make me look at the stupidest thing for five seconds? Now you can!

I can't promise I'll actually see it. Surprisingly I have better things to do than just stare at some LEDs on a wall all day.

What it shows

Interupting whatever program the Board is currently running, the message program scrolls through any unseen messages in the queue, displaying them one by one. After the last message is shown, it returns to the previously running program.

The details

After sending a message using the form above, the message will be stored in the SQLite database on the server, where it will wait for the Board's next request for messages. In order to batch message interuptions, the main program has an interval to request new messages from the server every five seconds.