To answer your first question, I believe that's correct-that's when it would cease showing the previous day's state and show upcoming games. I'm not sure about the answer to the second, but that should be easy to test.
Managed to get this working after a few hours! Ended up getting the HAT rather than bonnet (accidently), doing a bunch of first time soldering work, breaking my soldering iron before even using it so I had to get another one, and could only find a small LED screen (16x32 about 7 inches long). Going to build my own frame out of some old broken hockey sticks which I am excited about! This was certainly an interesting first project to jump into the Raspberry Pi world! Thanks a bunch!
When it comes to coding, I absolutely suck, but I am a light addict and led boards are just plain cool to me. I might actually try to do this in the near future.
@Howchoo, this is a great tutorial! I am interested in cycling through multiple sport scoreboards (NHL, MLB & NFL). I.e show each score for 5 mins then switch to the next. Is this possible to do? Any suggestions on where to start? Also, any suggestions on where to get weather related information for these boards?
Stupid question, if you daisy chained two LED panels side by side or 4 in a rectangle, would the layout adjust automatically to fit your multi-part screen? Or would I need to figure that part out on my own?
I saw this on Reddit, and as a dumb 17yo hockey fan with NO experience with working with coding or building, I really want to try this. @Howchoo please lmk if it is worth my time, and congrats on the Stanley Cup lol
Thank you very much for this. The parts list, detailed video and text walk through, and the devs at github all made this super easy. Just finished mine and can't wait to add the MLB scoreboard as well.
Thanks for the video and the guide, I'm planning to create something similar (a dashboard for my solar panel using the API provided by the solar panel inverter company). It's going to be fun
Would you or anyone happen to know if this could work with stock ticker or res news feeds? And how I would go about to get the live stock and news feed to run on these led screen?
There are a bunch of libraries that use this library under the hood: github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix - should be able to find some results with some Google searches and by checking out that GitHub repo.
This is an awesome project. My plan is to build one for my friend. A couple things that I would like to add if at all possible would be an MP3 player and a relay for a 110v outlet. My thought is that when the Blackhawks score, the Chelsea Daggar song would play and a red beacon would flash. Is this something the Pi is capable of doing?
Absolutely. You just need to store the sound file on the Pi and modify the code to play the sound file when your team scores. Of course, this requires some level of programming knowledge. Also, a red "goal score" animation already shows up when a team, scores. :)
Sadly this is sort of outdated as the Raspberry Pi Zero W is no longer supported by this project. Everything else is the same just use a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4.
Hello, I loved your video so I attempted to make it also. I wanted to make the MLB one. I followed all the steps and got everything you did. Its working but the issue i have is on the 64x32 5mm led it is showing the same thing like it was 2 32x32. I have spent days reading everything i could to get it to work and started from scratch and still happened. im sure its something small but any help to get the full 64x32 would be greatly appreciated. I want to give it as a gift before opening day. Looking forward to more of your videos!
Hi, I've got mine working last season (I changed it display NFL data/scores). Now I'm borrowing a 3d printer Ender 3 V2. I'm having a hard time getting it nicely print out the housing. I've level the bed. I've done test prints (they look flawless), put then I go to print the housing for this, and it just starts off the base layer all stringy and not really well. Can anyone share what setting should I have this slice set to?
Great guide! Putting a twist on this, I'm interested in doing multiple sports across multiple displays. I'm very confident I could get the teams/scores from the web automatically and create my own formatted images but I don't have experience with LED matrices or anything similar. It seems like changing the displayed image to something specific is cumbersome (at least for cheaper, 3rd party displays), but maybe I was just looking at the wrong guides. What resources would you recommend I look at to try this?
To learn how to display images on the matrix and do what you're describing, check out the display library that it uses under the hood: github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix
@@johnbotica7136 I've gotten one display working, though I still need to do a bit more optimization to get it perfect. If you have experience with Python I could send you my code so you can get started on your own display. From what I understand the display code from hzeller (that howchoo linked above) makes chaining multiple displays really easy, so once you get one working it should just be chaining the boards with the cables they come with and maybe optimizing a little more. The script I use to get scores is also very general, so you should be able to adapt it to getting scores from any sports league fairly easily. imgur.com/a/85AXIK9 (Note that I do want to make the text look better, for now it's just a generic font rendered at whatever size fits)
This is all confusing to me haha but I do have a question about the display… can this be hooked to any display where it mimics more like a tv screen instead of the spaced led lights?
For sure! There are a few options for doing this-a high-output battery pack would do the trick. You'll need one that can power the panel and Pi and, ideally, has pass-through charging so it'll power the panel and Pi while the power bank itself is charging. This power bank should work perfectly: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XRVHDLM?tag=howchoo-20 - it was recommended by the designer who created the housing I used in this project.
Probably not in this case-the biggest issue is that software is constantly evolving. So if they released a new library, my steps would no longer work and I'd need to make a new video. For that reason, I do provide a full step-by-step text and photo guide (in the video description), which is much easier to update than shooting and editing a new video each time. :)
I was just looking for this button. If you go to the "Power Button Video" in the description above, there's a "Normally Open (NO) momentary button" linked in that descriptions video.
Great video, I'd like to use this for my son's baseball games. We use an app to keep score called Gamechanger. Would it be possible to link the score board to that app?
I had a Pi 4 laying around that I'm using while I'm waiting for my pi zero to show up. I ran "sudo apt-get install git pytho" and it gives me "E: Unable to locate package Pytho". I tried "get update" and "get Upgrade" a couple times but with no success. Any suggestions?
Hi at 8:40 you talk about the pitch fork connectors you're just saying that the pitch forks are too wide/long and if it touches something else for some reason you could screw up your raspberry pi right? Thanks so much!
Correct, just be careful to make sure they don’t touch anything metal that they aren’t supposed to-and make sure power is disconnected before connecting them. :)
Have you ever built these with a OLED 2.8" Display and a PI Nano? I want to create a generic scoreboard for football and baseball for a train display with the game clock counting down quarters or innings and scores getting added at certain times. I would really appreciate any help you can throw my way!
Quick question if someone can answer, I have everything up and running included the on/off switch and the anti flicker mod, my problem is that sometimes my scoreboard randomly turns on by itself. Any ideas as to why?
Weird! I would check the button connections-the button itself might be bad or there might be a loose connection or short. If you have more buttons, swapping it out with a new one is the fastest way to test.
Traxxtar You can’t scale the housing easily because the screw holes won’t line up, but you could find another housing for it that someone has already designed. Search “6mm pitch” or “P6” on Thingiverse
@@Howchoo Thanks! I hobby in microelectronics and want one for College football. I'll see about having my son-in-law write a library to scrape those results. That said, this project of yours if fantastic!
They can be, according to Ada Fruit. I have one, and haven't done anything with it... It's super bright, I bet there is a way to control brightness -- just haven't played with it enough. I just want a static image on it like the Atari logo, etc. Very doable. Wish it had a diffusion or darkening screen infront of the LEDs
Excellent tutorial, I was able to recreate everything except the housing. The two websites I checked for 3D printing had quotes ~$300. My public library has a service that I'll try when they reopen. If anyone has low cost solutions for the housing I'd love to hear them!
This is a good opportunity to learn some Python programming then! I would read some Python and Git tutorials and then begin to examine the code used for this (in the video description). We have a "Python Basics" series on Howchoo that you can check out to get started learning Python: howchoo.com/g/mtiwmjdkmzj/your-first-python-program
@howchoo First of all, thanks so much for the guide! I am having an issue. I am fairly new to python and when I try to run the test scripts to make sure my matrix is working, I'm getting the error where it doesn't recognize "main.py". Any tips on what's going wrong? I feel like I am doing something wrong but I just followed the guide. Thanks for your help!
I am so close to being done but I am having trouble finishing the last part “start up script”. I was able to reach this point using a monitor and keyboard. I need help please.
Is anyone working on adding the logos for MLB to the MLB scoreboard project? The NHL scoreboard has the logos so I would assume it would be easy to add the MLB logos to the MLB project? Maybe need to get licensing permissions?
I wanted to add an LED power indicator to this board since it takes so long to boot. i want to know that the Pi is booting, so I want some sort of indicator. Is there a way to make this happen?
Absolutely! I made a video and guide on this :) czcams.com/video/B2SN_BF4MRQ/video.html The guide is in that video description. The display bonnet covers the Raspberry Pi's pins, but Adafruit moved some off to the side for you to access.
When I first watched this video I got excited about making an NFL game score ticker, but then Tom Brady went to Tampa and I never want to hear about football again.
Trying to troubleshoot at the moment. When running any of the samples (or the live scoreboard), all I get is the same random blocks of pixels on my led board. Any ideas?
howchoo yes power supply is connected. The “blocks” I mean are just random colored patterns. Have it set up like yours with adafruit 5mm board. Edit: It displays the pattern anytime I try to run the script. The board goes back to idle/no lights when nothing is running
howchoo the pi shows that it’s refreshing game overview, but all the scoreboard shows is currently 2 thick red lines toward the bottom. Thinking maybe the bonnet is bad?
@@Itsjustsports05Even though this is a month old I figured I'd pop in - I had an issue with the connection between the pi and the bonnet. If I wiggled the bonnet I could find the sweet spot where it displayed properly
Hello all. I have built this and beginning the final programming. I am getting an error of "file not found" when I run the 3rd line sudo chmod +x install.sh Any clues as to what to look at or how to fix? Assistance is appreciated. git clone --recursive github.com/riffnshred/nhl-led-scoreboard cd nhl-led-scoreboard/ sudo chmod +x install.sh sudo ./install.sh
Yep! Search for the “mlb-led-scoreboard” repository on GitHub. We’ll be releasing a video for this towards the end of April, after baseball season has started
I am so close... I can see my Pi connected to my wireless router, but when I open putty and put in the ip address it times out... any help would be appreciated
@@Eracer8 Sorry I missed this. Can you try connecting the Pi to an HDMI monitor and keyboard and see if it's booting correctly and getting a connection? Like try running `ifconfig` or `ping google.com` from the command line.
@@Howchoo I did end up getting my board running! I have yet to figure out the flicker though... I made the hardware mod. Not sure how or where to input the software change.?
@@Eracer8 Awesome. Here's the software bit you need to do after the hardware part of the anti-flicker mod: howchoo.com/g/otvjnwy4mji/diy-raspberry-pi-nhl-scoreboard-led-panel#optional-anti-flicker-mod
Find something really cool, look up additional instructions, gets overly excited, go to buy parts and realize Raspberry Pi are basically impossible to get your hand on… the pain
Yeah I ordered some cheaper panels to mess around with but the colors and refresh rate weren't as nice-especially when scrolling text or animating. But you can definitely find cheaper panels out there.
See the full build guide on Howchoo: howchoo.com/g/otvjnwy4mji/diy-raspberry-pi-nhl-scoreboard-led-panel
To answer your first question, I believe that's correct-that's when it would cease showing the previous day's state and show upcoming games. I'm not sure about the answer to the second, but that should be easy to test.
@Howchoo Would you provide me with the dimensions of the housing, or insert link of the video where you designed and printed it please!!
Can you show how to make an MLB one?
Will it work if i use banana pi instead of raspberry pi
what do i need to connect two panels together?
Managed to get this working after a few hours! Ended up getting the HAT rather than bonnet (accidently), doing a bunch of first time soldering work, breaking my soldering iron before even using it so I had to get another one, and could only find a small LED screen (16x32 about 7 inches long). Going to build my own frame out of some old broken hockey sticks which I am excited about! This was certainly an interesting first project to jump into the Raspberry Pi world! Thanks a bunch!
When it comes to coding, I absolutely suck, but I am a light addict and led boards are just plain cool to me. I might actually try to do this in the near future.
@Howchoo, this is a great tutorial! I am interested in cycling through multiple sport scoreboards (NHL, MLB & NFL). I.e show each score for 5 mins then switch to the next. Is this possible to do? Any suggestions on where to start? Also, any suggestions on where to get weather related information for these boards?
did you ever get a response for this? Would be interested in the same - multiple teams in NHL (if not all) and MLB & NFL
Stupid question, if you daisy chained two LED panels side by side or 4 in a rectangle, would the layout adjust automatically to fit your multi-part screen? Or would I need to figure that part out on my own?
Anyone got a coding video for the MLB one? I’m struggling getting this thing going, I feel like it’s some dumb mistake somewhere.
Awesome! I’m super excited to try this out. But with one key difference. GO AVS!
I saw this on Reddit, and as a dumb 17yo hockey fan with NO experience with working with coding or building, I really want to try this. @Howchoo please lmk if it is worth my time, and congrats on the Stanley Cup lol
Thank you very much for this. The parts list, detailed video and text walk through, and the devs at github all made this super easy. Just finished mine and can't wait to add the MLB scoreboard as well.
Go bolts baby!
Go Bolts!
Where were you able to find a raspberry pi zero w for $10? The cheapest I can find is $70
Thanks for the video and the guide, I'm planning to create something similar (a dashboard for my solar panel using the API provided by the solar panel inverter company).
It's going to be fun
I’ve been looking for a project to get a Pi for... he shoots, he scores!
Would love to have this for MLS with soccer.
If you know Python and know how to use BeautifulSoup, you could probably scrape MLS data
Would you or anyone happen to know if this could work with stock ticker or res news feeds? And how I would go about to get the live stock and news feed to run on these led screen?
There are a bunch of libraries that use this library under the hood: github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix - should be able to find some results with some Google searches and by checking out that GitHub repo.
Woah, that looks awesome. Thank you for this video
Glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully hockey starts up again soon (when it's safe, of course) :)
I love the holder shown at 6:15 of the video. Do you have any recommendations on where to buy that, or what search terms to use to find it?
This is an awesome project. My plan is to build one for my friend.
A couple things that I would like to add if at all possible would be an MP3 player and a relay for a 110v outlet.
My thought is that when the Blackhawks score, the Chelsea Daggar song would play and a red beacon would flash.
Is this something the Pi is capable of doing?
Absolutely. You just need to store the sound file on the Pi and modify the code to play the sound file when your team scores. Of course, this requires some level of programming knowledge. Also, a red "goal score" animation already shows up when a team, scores. :)
Sadly this is sort of outdated as the Raspberry Pi Zero W is no longer supported by this project. Everything else is the same just use a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4.
Hello, I loved your video so I attempted to make it also. I wanted to make the MLB one. I followed all the steps and got everything you did. Its working but the issue i have is on the 64x32 5mm led it is showing the same thing like it was 2 32x32. I have spent days reading everything i could to get it to work and started from scratch and still happened. im sure its something small but any help to get the full 64x32 would be greatly appreciated. I want to give it as a gift before opening day. Looking forward to more of your videos!
Does anyone know if there is an ECHL api? I work for a local ECHL team and this would be so much better than keeping a webpage open.
Could you not just scrape the webpage for the scores and display that? Assuming there is no API?
I been wanting something like this.
Hi, I've got mine working last season (I changed it display NFL data/scores). Now I'm borrowing a 3d printer Ender 3 V2. I'm having a hard time getting it nicely print out the housing. I've level the bed. I've done test prints (they look flawless), put then I go to print the housing for this, and it just starts off the base layer all stringy and not really well. Can anyone share what setting should I have this slice set to?
Great guide!
Putting a twist on this, I'm interested in doing multiple sports across multiple displays. I'm very confident I could get the teams/scores from the web automatically and create my own formatted images but I don't have experience with LED matrices or anything similar. It seems like changing the displayed image to something specific is cumbersome (at least for cheaper, 3rd party displays), but maybe I was just looking at the wrong guides. What resources would you recommend I look at to try this?
To learn how to display images on the matrix and do what you're describing, check out the display library that it uses under the hood: github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix
Ian Tillman if you do the multiple sports could you share how you did it? I would like to do NHL,EPL, College Football and NFL
@@johnbotica7136 I've gotten one display working, though I still need to do a bit more optimization to get it perfect. If you have experience with Python I could send you my code so you can get started on your own display. From what I understand the display code from hzeller (that howchoo linked above) makes chaining multiple displays really easy, so once you get one working it should just be chaining the boards with the cables they come with and maybe optimizing a little more. The script I use to get scores is also very general, so you should be able to adapt it to getting scores from any sports league fairly easily.
imgur.com/a/85AXIK9 (Note that I do want to make the text look better, for now it's just a generic font rendered at whatever size fits)
Could this be used to show nights out readings or Dexcom readings for blood sugar? Similar to SugarPixel?
This is all confusing to me haha but I do have a question about the display… can this be hooked to any display where it mimics more like a tv screen instead of the spaced led lights?
Do you know if I can do something like this for golf scores?
Anyway to add a battery so you could bring it to a friends for a party??
For sure! There are a few options for doing this-a high-output battery pack would do the trick. You'll need one that can power the panel and Pi and, ideally, has pass-through charging so it'll power the panel and Pi while the power bank itself is charging. This power bank should work perfectly: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XRVHDLM?tag=howchoo-20 - it was recommended by the designer who created the housing I used in this project.
Would I be able to chain two panels together? @howchoo
Looks kinda lame with the type crammed against the very top of the display. Maybe give it 2-3 pixels of space?
Would the matrix bonnet work with a lithium ion battery source instead?
I know it's step by step and should be fairly easy to complete if one knows what they are doing, but will you ever make a video on the script steps?
Probably not in this case-the biggest issue is that software is constantly evolving. So if they released a new library, my steps would no longer work and I'd need to make a new video. For that reason, I do provide a full step-by-step text and photo guide (in the video description), which is much easier to update than shooting and editing a new video each time. :)
Any advice I am getting the following error "python: can't open file 'main.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
" ?
Can you make a scoreboard the keep score on the cornhole game with the same technology
Does anyone know which power button is used? I can't find it in the guide. Thanks!
I was just looking for this button. If you go to the "Power Button Video" in the description above, there's a "Normally Open (NO) momentary button" linked in that descriptions video.
Is it possible to cycle through either different teams for the same sport or different sports
Great video, I'd like to use this for my son's baseball games. We use an app to keep score called Gamechanger. Would it be possible to link the score board to that app?
With a bit of coding it’s definitely possible.
I am new to this all, if you plug the input into one screen and power into the other, how does the other screen get the signal?
I’d like to build a score board for soccer size may be 2mx3m. Is this possibly by this setup ?
I had a Pi 4 laying around that I'm using while I'm waiting for my pi zero to show up. I ran "sudo apt-get install git pytho" and it gives me "E: Unable to locate package Pytho". I tried "get update" and "get Upgrade" a couple times but with no success. Any suggestions?
It’s python, not pytho ;)
Hi at 8:40 you talk about the pitch fork connectors you're just saying that the pitch forks are too wide/long and if it touches something else for some reason you could screw up your raspberry pi right? Thanks so much!
Correct, just be careful to make sure they don’t touch anything metal that they aren’t supposed to-and make sure power is disconnected before connecting them. :)
@@Howchoo thanks! Look forward to more stuff from you I followed all your social media I feel like a stalker lol
Would this be capable of running on an Adafruit Matrix Porrtal which attaches directly to the LED 64x32 display?
I don’t see why not!
Have you ever built these with a OLED 2.8" Display and a PI Nano? I want to create a generic scoreboard for football and baseball for a train display with the game clock counting down quarters or innings and scores getting added at certain times. I would really appreciate any help you can throw my way!
I don't see why you can't buy a 2.8" display. It's like a monitor so it'll display it to the size of the screen.
Anything for NFL? I'm quite interested.
Quick question if someone can answer, I have everything up and running included the on/off switch and the anti flicker mod, my problem is that sometimes my scoreboard randomly turns on by itself. Any ideas as to why?
Weird! I would check the button connections-the button itself might be bad or there might be a loose connection or short. If you have more buttons, swapping it out with a new one is the fastest way to test.
The NHL-Led-Scoreboard is no longer is working and has been archived. Any replacement?
I'd like to use the larger 6mm pitch matrix display. Could the 3D housing be enlarged easily to accommodate the larger panel? If so, how?
Traxxtar You can’t scale the housing easily because the screw holes won’t line up, but you could find another housing for it that someone has already designed. Search “6mm pitch” or “P6” on Thingiverse
@@Howchoo Thanks! I hobby in microelectronics and want one for College football. I'll see about having my son-in-law write a library to scrape those results. That said, this project of yours if fantastic!
Can the led boards be linked together easily to make a larger board?
They can be, according to Ada Fruit. I have one, and haven't done anything with it... It's super bright, I bet there is a way to control brightness -- just haven't played with it enough. I just want a static image on it like the Atari logo, etc. Very doable. Wish it had a diffusion or darkening screen infront of the LEDs
Excellent tutorial, I was able to recreate everything except the housing. The two websites I checked for 3D printing had quotes ~$300. My public library has a service that I'll try when they reopen. If anyone has low cost solutions for the housing I'd love to hear them!
Yes, please try your library out-using and supporting their 3D printing services will allow them to offer them more :)
I want to do this with college football and high school football but I don’t know how to
This is a good opportunity to learn some Python programming then! I would read some Python and Git tutorials and then begin to examine the code used for this (in the video description). We have a "Python Basics" series on Howchoo that you can check out to get started learning Python: howchoo.com/g/mtiwmjdkmzj/your-first-python-program
@Jay Washington Did you ever get your College Football scoreboard to work?
I'm starting one now. Curious if you had any advice or issues?? Thanks!
@howchoo First of all, thanks so much for the guide! I am having an issue. I am fairly new to python and when I try to run the test scripts to make sure my matrix is working, I'm getting the error where it doesn't recognize "main.py". Any tips on what's going wrong? I feel like I am doing something wrong but I just followed the guide.
Thanks for your help!
Did you ever figure out the solution to this? Currently dealing with this issue
Do you need to know how to code in order to do this? I was always out for the important stuff during coding class in hs lol
I am so close to being done but I am having trouble finishing the last part “start up script”. I was able to reach this point using a monitor and keyboard. I need help please.
Sorry I missed this-what's the specific issue you're having?
Can we turn this into a Bluetooth notification center?
I don’t see why not!
Is anyone working on adding the logos for MLB to the MLB scoreboard project? The NHL scoreboard has the logos so I would assume it would be easy to add the MLB logos to the MLB project? Maybe need to get licensing permissions?
I wanted to add an LED power indicator to this board since it takes so long to boot. i want to know that the Pi is booting, so I want some sort of indicator. Is there a way to make this happen?
Absolutely! I made a video and guide on this :) czcams.com/video/B2SN_BF4MRQ/video.html The guide is in that video description.
The display bonnet covers the Raspberry Pi's pins, but Adafruit moved some off to the side for you to access.
I already got confused on the code
Which part? It’s step-by-step
Same. That's the only thing that's keeping me from doing this
Is it possible to play a sound when the goal is detected
Can you use a Pi Pico instead?
How can I do this but for stock tickers? Thanks a lot
When I first watched this video I got excited about making an NFL game score ticker, but then Tom Brady went to Tampa and I never want to hear about football again.
Haha. Don't worry, even Tom Brady can't make our team not terrible.
Is there an AFL API? I'm an Australian, and this'd be great for a birthday present!
Yep, I found documentation for one here: www.programmableweb.com/api/afl-mobile-web-services - there might be more official documentation elsewhere
Trying to troubleshoot at the moment. When running any of the samples (or the live scoreboard), all I get is the same random blocks of pixels on my led board. Any ideas?
Is your power supply connected? What do the blocks look like? Any errors being output? Is this an Adafruit screen?
howchoo yes power supply is connected. The “blocks” I mean are just random colored patterns. Have it set up like yours with adafruit 5mm board.
Edit: It displays the pattern anytime I try to run the script. The board goes back to idle/no lights when nothing is running
howchoo the pi shows that it’s refreshing game overview, but all the scoreboard shows is currently 2 thick red lines toward the bottom. Thinking maybe the bonnet is bad?
@@Itsjustsports05 So this sounds like a hardware issue-one of the connections, the bonnet, or the display itself is bad.
@@Itsjustsports05Even though this is a month old I figured I'd pop in - I had an issue with the connection between the pi and the bonnet. If I wiggled the bonnet I could find the sweet spot where it displayed properly
how do you get rid of the flickering (2021/07/11)
Can the code be updated to work across multiple boards connected together?
Im using 2 P3 boards side by side and is working great. In your startup command line you need to add -
-led-chain=2
Hello all. I have built this and beginning the final programming.
I am getting an error of "file not found" when I run the 3rd line sudo chmod +x install.sh
Any clues as to what to look at or how to fix?
Assistance is appreciated.
git clone --recursive github.com/riffnshred/nhl-led-scoreboard
cd nhl-led-scoreboard/
sudo chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh
Hello, does this work with the MLB yet? I saw you were trying to make it work.
Yep! Search for the “mlb-led-scoreboard” repository on GitHub. We’ll be releasing a video for this towards the end of April, after baseball season has started
What ruler is that?
Digi-Key gave me that at the Bay Area Maker Faire, but I believe they sell them on their site for like $5. :)
#GoBolts ⚡⚡⚡
do you have a NBA scoreboard with a logo?
Is this basically a tydbyt?
any code updates ? i cant get it to work
I need a NFL library
Someone did just create a Fantasy Football one! github.com/mikemountain/fantasy-football-scoreboard But no "normal" NFL one just yet.
I am so close... I can see my Pi connected to my wireless router, but when I open putty and put in the ip address it times out... any help would be appreciated
PuTTy Fatal Error Network error: Connection timed out
@@Eracer8 Sorry I missed this. Can you try connecting the Pi to an HDMI monitor and keyboard and see if it's booting correctly and getting a connection? Like try running `ifconfig` or `ping google.com` from the command line.
@@Howchoo I did end up getting my board running! I have yet to figure out the flicker though... I made the hardware mod. Not sure how or where to input the software change.?
@@Eracer8 Awesome. Here's the software bit you need to do after the hardware part of the anti-flicker mod: howchoo.com/g/otvjnwy4mji/diy-raspberry-pi-nhl-scoreboard-led-panel#optional-anti-flicker-mod
Can you use an HD monitor? I assume yes
Why would you want to? Completely defeats the purpose.
I am seeing a lot of recommended items out of stock...are there updates with in stock items?
You might need to search around a bit-maybe check Adafruit’s site directly?
@@Howchooyeah went there and out of stock
Is it possible to have multiple teams and possibly multiple sports without knowing anything about coding?
Probably not (at least until that functionality is added to the core library), but this is a perfect project to learn some coding on :)
I haven’t tried a pi but would this work with arduino?
The NHL library is coded for the Raspberry Pi, but there are other libraries for this panel that run on Arduino-none for NHL though AFAIK.
How do you do mlb and nba?
Do you make/sell these??
Can this be done on a 1920x1080 PC monitor instead?
Ivano Franchetto Not using this library-this one is specifically for an LED panel
@@Howchoo I too am interested in this. Do you have any suggestions?
THIS IS FUCKING LIT
How can I do this for live Nba scores?
Probably
Could you do nfl teams
Is anyone building and selling these?
Can I connect multiple paneles to make larger signs?
Not sure how many you can add but I have 2 P3 panels across. You will need to add this to your startup command line --led-chain=2
If you are selling them completed lol let me know
*What a terrible waste of resources. Why didn't you use esp32 for this project? It would be 4 times cheaper....*
build it yourself for 100 or buy one for 120? i'd rather do neither
Find something really cool, look up additional instructions, gets overly excited, go to buy parts and realize Raspberry Pi are basically impossible to get your hand on… the pain
Hey um william...... Wtf
As far as I can tell this project no longer works. Too bad I already bought all the components lol
Is anyone making these and selling them yet lol?
You paid way too much for that panel though. You can get P5's for $15 all over the place.
Yeah I ordered some cheaper panels to mess around with but the colors and refresh rate weren't as nice-especially when scrolling text or animating. But you can definitely find cheaper panels out there.
Hi, how many screens could you contol with one Raspberry Pi?