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riffnshred / nhl-led-scoreboard

🚨 Display NHL live score, stats, and more of your favorite teams, on a Raspberry Pi driven RGB LED matrix. 🚨
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Switch between NHL and MLB #276

Open FRiles427 opened 3 years ago

FRiles427 commented 3 years ago

Not really an issue, but a question. How would one go about switching from the NHL scoreboard to the MLB scoreboard? By the time I get this thing done the Blackhawks season will be over and my attention will be focused on the Cubs. Is there a quick way short of a second board setup or reprogramming every time I want to change? Thanks!

pjockey commented 3 years ago

Use Supervisor to perform the trick

https://github.com/riffnshred/nhl-led-scoreboard/wiki/Step-by-step-guide.#step-7---now-to-run-it

xjmsp commented 3 years ago

What I did was set up the MLB / NHL both as services via https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard/wiki/Creating-a-systemd-startup-script In the services you'll have to decide which board you want to start up when the Pi starts up.
So one will need Restart=always & RestartSec=2 lines commented out with a # and that would be the non-primary board. I comment them out so I can switch seasons. During Primary NHL season I commend out the lines on MLB, and switch it around for when MLB is in primary season. ex:

[Service]
Environment="SCOREBOARD_ARGS=--led-brightness=40 --led-slowdown-gpio=2 --led-gpio-mapping="adafruit-hat-pwm""
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/mlb-led-scoreboard
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python main.py $SCOREBOARD_ARGS
#Restart=always
#RestartSec=2

Then with my iPhone setup a SSH Shortcut for each action. Shut down NHL and start MLB:

sudo service nhl-led-scoreboard stop
sudo service mlb-led-scoreboard start

Shut down MLB and start NHL:

sudo service mlb-led-scoreboard stop
sudo service nhl-led-scoreboard start
xTrackstar04x commented 3 years ago

If you use HomeBridge, I have a guide on the discord on how to make each board into a switch. Just let me know and I'll try to post it here.

jwallner0710 commented 3 years ago

Now that my Blues are out of the playoffs......didn't stand a chance against the Avs.... I'm looking to get the MLB repository up and running. I believe I have download the MLB from the github page and ran the necessary code. I'm trying to run through the directions the @xjmsp has outlined above.

I have created the mlb-led-scoreboard.service file. I have placed the file on raspberry pi, but when I run the code to place it in the correct file, it says file not found. I have also download WinSCP place the file that way, but it saying I don't have permission to place the file in the right spot manually.

Currently, my scoreboard is running nhl-led-scoreboard with supervisor enabled. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

This is where I'm at... image

sflems commented 3 years ago

@FRiles427 - I've just released v2 of the led-board-manager app. Its a web interface for managing boards (NHL/NFL/MLB and custom boards) and creating configurations. It's a definite helper over the standard supervisor features. Feel free to check it out!

Not really an issue, but a question. How would one go about switching from the NHL scoreboard to the MLB scoreboard? By the time I get this thing done the Blackhawks season will be over and my attention will be focused on the Cubs. Is there a quick way short of a second board setup or reprogramming every time I want to change? Thanks!