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bk1285 / rpi_wordclock

Software to create a Raspberry Pi based wordclock
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Wordclock without changing colors #82

Closed spintike closed 6 years ago

spintike commented 6 years ago

Hello Bernd! dsc05458

I have successfully built a wordclock on my own - except for the excellent software you've provided!

Now to be honest I'm a bit unsatisfied with my own wordclock changing the colors (as you can see on the attached pictures). The question at hand would be if there's a slick way to deactivate the coloring at all?

Until I was not able to understand the code to that point where I can deactivate it.

Help is greatly appreciated!

P.S.: And yes, it's a swabian one 😄

bk1285 commented 6 years ago

Hi @spintike

Nice build! Do you have buttons attached to the clock?

Please check your wordclock config for this setting: [wordclock_interface] type = gpio_low

... and try with set to "gpio_high"

Best, Bernd

bk1285 commented 6 years ago

PS: Hope you don't mind, if I add your swabian clock to the "Hall of fame": https://www.pinterest.de/berndkrolla/wordclock-gallery/ ;)

spintike commented 6 years ago

That's fine for me @bk1285 :-)

Unfortunately this is not what I meant with my original post.

Right now I have no buttons attached to the clock. It's just that it's changing the LED colors from time to time and I want to get rid of it - I want to state that its a fine piece of code to achieve this function but in my case it's just not needed...

bk1285 commented 6 years ago

Hi,

so if you have no buttons attached, you need to set

[wordclock_interface] type = gpio_high

Please let me know, if this does not resolve the issue. In this case it's probably a major issue......

spintike commented 6 years ago

Hi again!

Sorry for answering so late!

The GPIO setting did the trick, now everything is as wanted 👍