web2rgbmatrix

web2rgbmatrix is a wireless arcade marquee with a web based management UI and some other cool features.

Current Features

• Matrix: Display animated or static GIFs from SD card or by HTTP POST
• Matrix: Display text by request
• Matrix: Screen Savers: Blank, Tetris Clock, Plasma, Starfield, and Toasters
• Matrix: Configured for two 64x32 panels, the number and size of the panel can be adjusted near the top of the ino file.
• Web: Display status of Wifi, SD Card, loaded GIF, settings and connected client
• Web: Settings for Wifi, matrix text color, matrix brightness, screen saver, and client timeout
• Web: SD Card File Browser with upload support
• Web: OTA updates
• Web: HTTP calls for scripting
• FTP: FTP Server for SD card file management
• Serial: MiSTer_tty2x service support, requires GIFs installed on rgbmatrix SD Card
• Serial: Debug output
• MiSTer FPGA/RetroPie: Linux service that displays an animated and/or static GIF logo of the current running core.
• MiSTer FPGA/RetroPie: Text fallback for missing GIFs
• MiSTer FPGA/RetroPie: Store GIFs on system, storing on the requesting system introduces a playback delay due to the transfer
• MiSTer FPGA/RetroPie: Update Script
• Batocera: Very basic script that shows animated and/or static GIF of the current running MAME game or emulator.

Requirements

Hardware

• ESP32-Trinity or similar device
• (2) 64x32 HUB75 compatible RGB matrix or matrices. ie.
• SD Card module(optional) ie.
• SD Card(optional), any size, the one that came with the DE10-Nano works great
• 5V Power Supply, the one that came with the DE10-Nano works great

Software

• Arduino IDE 2.0+
• ESP32 Board Support Package 2.0+
• Library Dependencies: AnimatedGIF, ArduinoJson, ESP32-HUB75-MatrixPanel-I2S, ESP32FTPServer, ESP32Ping, ezTime, FastLED, SdFat, TetrisAnimation

Marquee Art

• 128x32 resolution Marquee GIFs pack

Documentation

Assembly

Install & Setup

Configuration

MiSTer Setup

RetroPie/Emulationstation Setup

Batocera Setup

API

Credits

Inspired by the tty2rgbmatrix and MiSTer_tty2oled projects.

Linux/MiSTer service code and update scripts from the MiSTer_tty2oled project with modifications.

Plasma animation code from here.

Starfield animation code from here

Tetris Clock code from here

Toast animation code from here