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Qrome
Some changes I made in the code
All changes I made are hardcoded for me.
- I have made a change in the newsapi. This allows me to add country instead of sources, so I can see the news of my country.
- I have made a change in the sync weather function. Now I am able to still see the time while updating. Maybe I will add a dot in every corner while syncing to see how far the syncing process is.
- I have added lang=%language% inside the string of the openweathermap api to allow me to get the description in my own language. (See: https://openweathermap.org/current at Multilingual support)
- Also changed the Humidity and Windspeed to my own language.
Thanks for this awesome arduino program!
Hey Qrome,
Would it be possible to attach the fusion360 file with the Thingiverse design? I really would like to edit this model to make it usable for 6 displays and also want to build a 4cm speaker+mp3 module inside to make it act as an alarm clock.
Thanks!
I designed it in TinkerCad and it is only available as an STL from there. Sorry.
is it technically possible to get German or polish letters on led screen?
@pl4y3r2nd -- It was frustrating to learn that the fonts used in the marquee scroller does not have a full international character set. If someone wants to try and implement those, that would be great. As for now, the full international letter set is not supported.
@Qrome: Can you give an advice where the font for the matrix is defined?
Thank you for the clock. Great project. I´ve build one. And now I´m also thinking about improvements. Support for different languages would be great. I would support you as good as I can.
@MachmaHinne thanks! The project uses the Max72xxPanel and that in turn uses the Adafruit_GFX library -- the fonts belong to the Adafruit_GFX. I have not spent much time looking at it, however I have generated my own fonts for another project but not for the LED matrix. https://github.com/markruys/arduino-Max72xxPanel
Ok. I think there is hope for a solution for this problem. The Adafruit GFX lib contains only 7-bit fonts. But I found a tool that can generate also 8-bit fonts. I´ll stick on this. https://blog.squix.org/2016/10/font-creator-now-creates-adafruit-gfx-fonts.html
At the moment I have a problem with a bunch of 8x64 Modules I ordered at banggood.com, because the order of the 4 panels is reversed. #1 is on the right, #4 is on the left. Does anyone have heard about that problem? Any hints?
After reading arduino-Max72xxPanel-master, I´m not so confident any more, because this lib has to be changed for that. And the development of it seems to be dead.
For the problem with my modules I had to change matrix.setRotation(i, 3); to matrix.setRotation(i, 1); But now I have to rotate the whole module and change the pins from one side to the other :(
I did a PR (change request) a while back to the arduino-Max72xxPanel-master -- if needed we could always create a branch of it to modify and include it as part of the marquee code.
As for the LED modules you have, I know there are some out there assembled differently than the ones I linked to. Someone else had the same issue, the where able to do it through rotation only.
what should i change in the code so i can view news for my country (Greece) ?
@costascontis -- the quick and easy way would be to edit line 45 of theNewsApiClient.cpp file where it defines the URL that requests the news.
You can find samples here on how you might change it: https://newsapi.org/docs/endpoints/top-headlines
you mean the line
String apiGetData = "http://" + String(servername) + "/v2/top-headlines?sources=" + mySource + "&apiKey=" + myApiKey;
i dont understand well my country source is
https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?country=gr&apiKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
how can i edit line 45 to be?
edit :i got it and Greek news are displaying fine at marquee's web page but are showning gibberish at marquee it self.It cannot display greek fonts right :(
How can i get this changes? It would be perfect for me. I live in Brazil and i would like to translate the Weather infos to Portuguese and use a brazillian news source too.
How can i get this changes? It would be perfect for me. I live in Brazil and i would like to translate the Weather infos to Portuguese and use a brazillian news source too.
Anyone please?
The weather text comes from the weather service and would not be translated in the code here. There are only a few words that are in the code -- you can find them and change them as needed.
The fonts supported by the marque do not include special characters as mentioned above.
I tried to change the news source to globo or googlenews-br (two news source from Brazil) in the code. But, after upload, the news source stills on BBC (currently before the change). How can i fix this?
You need to add it to the options in the ino file. Also once it is loaded you have to use the web interface to change settings.
