Frank Exoo

Regarding the LED's: are you planning to use separate LED's instead of the strips? That would mean a PCB the size of the clock? Neat, but maybe much more expensive....

Here's the explanation why: https://github.com/bk1285/rpi_wordclock/issues/107#issuecomment-447108988 If you're lucky, it will work without. But by design it is not reliable. If you are designing a custom PCB anyway, stay on the...

The Pi Zero has no overvoltage protection. The Pi4 has a TVS on its 5V supply. Then again, you can also add protection on your PCB.

Like the idea! I can see two implementations: 1. Special occasions. Using a plugin, with API-endpoint. Setting the text, repeat time, colour, etc. through the webinterface 2. Repeating occasions. Like...

I will start having a look (especially the web interface) when I get back from holiday. Cannot make any promises though.

Initial prototype for the user interface: - Text to scroll - Start date and time - Repeating period - Enable/disable switch  Feedback is appreciated.

@R0lleston If the repeat time is set to 0 it will scroll continuously (maybe I should call it delay?). I was thinking specifying the delay in minutes was small enough....

Like this? 

I continued working on it. The web interface is ready, now working on the rest of the implementation. I should have something to share in the coming weeks.

I have made an initial implementation, with the user interface but yet without the repeating message. You can find it here: https://github.com/FrankX0/rpi_wordclock/tree/develop It is based on the current (Pyhton3) development...