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.
Sadly this is sort of outdated as the Raspberry Pi Zero W is no longer supported by this project.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.
@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?
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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
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. :)
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.
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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)
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
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?
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
@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!
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.
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 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 :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B2SN_BF4MRQ.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.
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. :)
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. :)
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!
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
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!
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
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
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.
