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In this case a [[KuroBoxPro]] was used however any Linkstation could be used by accessing the serial port interface. | In this case a [[KuroBoxPro]] was used however any Linkstation could be used by accessing the serial port interface. | ||
− | First, install a [[serial port]] interface. There are two physical serial ports on the | + | First, install a [[serial port]] interface. There are two physical serial ports on the KuroBoxPro. One [[Add a Serial port to the ARM9 Linkstation | serial port on the bottom]]<ref>[[Add a Serial port to the ARM9 Linkstation]]</ref> which is the same as the port on the [[Information/LSPROOverview | Linkstation Pro]] and one on the [[SCON-KIT/_PRO_quick_manual | daughterboard accessible from the front]]. Both are addressed as <tt><b>/dev/ttyS0</b></tt>. Consider soldering in a pinheader rather than the pressure connector used in the [[Add a Serial port to the ARM9 Linkstation| LSPRO method]]. |
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− | ||http:// | + | ||[[Image:Rj11_connector.jpg|100px]]<br> |
+ | [http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=279-422 RS-279-422] | ||
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* Pin 4 of the RJ12 to RS-232 RXD | * Pin 4 of the RJ12 to RS-232 RXD | ||
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====MODE TAG and COLORTAG==== | ====MODE TAG and COLORTAG==== | ||
− | The key parts of this are the <b>MODE TAG</b> and <b>COLORTAG</b>, there is full documentation available for this<ref>[http://www. | + | The key parts of this are the <b>MODE TAG</b> and <b>COLORTAG</b>, there is full documentation available for this<ref>[http://www.adaptivedisplays.com/Documentation/questions.php?questionid=149 Alpha Sign Communications Protocol (pn 9708-8061)] |
− | + | </ref>but here are the pertinent parts. | |
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− | || | + | || Message travels right to left. |
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! b | ! b | ||
− | || | + | || Message remains stationary. |
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! c | ! c | ||
− | || | + | || Message remains stationary and flashes |
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! d | ! d | ||
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! e | ! e | ||
− | || | + | || Previous message is pushed up by a new message. |
|- | |- | ||
! f | ! f | ||
− | || | + | || Previous message is pushed down by a new message. |
|- | |- | ||
! g | ! g | ||
− | || | + | || Previous message is pushed left by a new message. |
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! h | ! h | ||
− | || | + | || Previous message is pushed right by a new message. |
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! i | ! i | ||
− | || | + | || New message is wiped over the previous message from bottom to top. |
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! j | ! j | ||
− | || | + | || New message is wiped over the previous message from top to bottom. |
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! k | ! k | ||
− | || | + | || New message is wiped over the previous message from right to left. |
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! l | ! l | ||
− | || | + | || New message is wiped over the previous message from left to right. |
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! m | ! m | ||
− | || | + | || New message line pushes the bottom line to the top line if 2-line sign. |
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! n | ! n | ||
− | || This is | + | || This is followed by a Special Specifier ASCII character which defines one of the Special Modes. |
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! o | ! o | ||
− | || | + | || Various Modes are called upon to display the message automatically. |
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! p | ! p | ||
− | || | + | || Previous message is pushed toward the center of the display by the new message. |
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! q | ! q | ||
− | || | + | || Previous message is pushed outward from the center by the new message. |
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! r | ! r | ||
− | || | + | || New message is wiped over the previous message in an inward motion. |
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! s | ! s | ||
− | || | + | || New message is wiped over the previous message in an outward motion. |
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! t | ! t | ||
− | || | + | || COMPRESSED - Message travels right to left. Characters are approximately one half their normal width. (Only available on certain sign models.) |
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! u | ! u | ||
− | || | + | || Message flies apart from the center (Alpha 3.0 protocol). |
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! v | ! v | ||
− | || | + | || Wipe in a clockwise direction (Alpha 3.0 protocol). |
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− | == | + | ==Ticker (Stock, Weather, News)== |
− | The sign can be used for a number of purposes (to display weather forecasts from an RSS feed, to display news feeds as a news ticker) As a proof of concept the following script uses the sign to display a stock ticker that gets it's data from | + | |
+ | The sign can be used for a number of purposes (to display weather forecasts from an [[w:RSS|RSS]] feed, to display news feeds as a news ticker) As a proof of concept the following script uses the sign to display a stock ticker that gets it's data from [[w:Yahoo!|Yahoo!]] it then colors the prices | ||
+ | |||
+ | <font color=green>GREEN</font> if they are positive/up | ||
+ | |||
+ | and | ||
+ | |||
+ | <font color=red>RED</font> if they are negative/down | ||
+ | |||
+ | for the day | ||
+ | {| width = "690px" cellpadding="10px" cellspacing="10px" | ||
+ | |-valign=top | ||
+ | || | ||
+ | Here it is in action: (clip from a cell phone so quality is somewhat poor) | ||
+ | <youtube>ojkgEQLNVG0</youtube> | ||
+ | || | ||
+ | This clip shows it fetching weather Stock quotes and news. This one happens to be running on a [[w:Plug_computer|Seagate Dockstar]] | ||
+ | <youtube>T7l2s0NrXqA</youtube> | ||
+ | |} | ||
First install perl and make | First install perl and make | ||
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Lastly here is a shell script to display the ticker | Lastly here is a shell script to display the ticker | ||
+ | |||
===leddisplay=== | ===leddisplay=== | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
− | # | + | #! /bin/bash |
− | # | + | #------------- |
+ | # leddisplay- | ||
+ | #------------- | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # A Script to display stock quotes, weather information, and news " | ||
+ | # on the ALPHA220C Sign" | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # usage leddisplay [flag] " | ||
+ | # s = stock quotes" | ||
+ | # w = weather " | ||
+ | # n = news " | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | #==================== | ||
+ | # User Set Variables= | ||
+ | #==================== | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # Weather Url | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | WURI=http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/illinois/chicago-12784260/ | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # News Feed URL | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | RSSURI=http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews/ | ||
+ | # | ||
# Stock ticker symbols | # Stock ticker symbols | ||
# | # | ||
+ | stocks=" ^DJI ^IXIC ^GSPC AAPL" | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | LINES=10 #Number of headlines | ||
+ | EXEC="/usr/bin/curl -s" #Path to curl | ||
+ | dow=$(date +%u) | ||
+ | hour=$(date +%k) | ||
PTE=/usr/local/bin | PTE=/usr/local/bin | ||
− | + | # Script Body | |
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | if [ $1 == "" ] | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | |||
+ | exit | ||
+ | fi | ||
+ | |||
+ | if [ $1 == "w" ] | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | |||
+ | lynx -dump $WURI | sed -n '/ Today/,/Tomorrow/p' | sed -e '$d' > /tmp/textfile | ||
+ | |||
+ | perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 2 > /dev/alpha | ||
+ | exit | ||
+ | fi | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | if [ $1 == "n" ] | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | $EXEC $RSSURI | grep title |\ | ||
+ | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\.//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\"//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\"//' |\ | ||
+ | head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\ | ||
+ | tail -n $(($LINES)) > /tmp/textfile | ||
+ | perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 1 > /dev/alpha | ||
+ | |||
+ | exit | ||
+ | fi | ||
+ | |||
+ | if [ $1 == "s" ] | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | quote $stocks | cut -d"(" -f1 |sed 's/^/\x1C9 \x7F \x1C3 /' | sed '/ -/s/:/\x1C1/g' | sed '/ +/s/:/\x1C2/g' > /tmp/textfile | ||
+ | perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t A > /dev/alpha | ||
+ | exit | ||
+ | fi | ||
+ | |||
+ | clear | ||
+ | echo "leddisplay" | ||
+ | echo "---------- " | ||
+ | echo " " | ||
+ | echo " A Script to display stock quotes, weather information, and news " | ||
+ | echo " on the ALPHA220C Sign" | ||
+ | echo " " | ||
+ | echo " usage leddisplay [flag] " | ||
+ | echo " s = stock quotes" | ||
+ | echo " w = weather " | ||
+ | echo " n = news " | ||
+ | echo " " | ||
− | |||
− | |||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===leddisplay-timeofday=== | ||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | #! /bin/bash | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # News Feed URL | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | RSSURI=http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews/ | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # Stock ticker symbols | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | stocks=" ^DJI ^IXIC ^GSPC AAPL " | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # Weather Url | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | WURI=http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/illinois/chicago-12784260/ | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | |||
+ | LINES=10 #Number of headlines | ||
+ | EXEC="/usr/bin/curl -s" #Path to curl | ||
+ | dow=$(date +%u) | ||
+ | hour=$(date +%k) | ||
+ | PTE=/usr/local/bin | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | if [ $hour -ge 5 ] && [ $hour -le 8 ] | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | |||
+ | lynx -dump $WURI | sed -n '/ Today/,/Tomorrow/p' | sed -e '$d' > /tmp/textfile | ||
+ | |||
+ | perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 2 > /dev/alpha | ||
+ | exit | ||
+ | fi | ||
+ | |||
+ | if [ $hour -ge 16 -o $hour -le 5 ] | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | $EXEC $RSSURI | grep title |\ | ||
+ | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\.//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\"//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\"//' |\ | ||
+ | head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\ | ||
+ | tail -n $(($LINES)) > /tmp/textfile | ||
+ | perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 1 > /dev/alpha | ||
+ | |||
+ | exit | ||
+ | fi | ||
+ | |||
+ | if [ $dow -ge 1 ] && [ $dow -le 5 ] | ||
+ | then | ||
+ | quote $stocks | cut -d"(" -f1 |sed 's/^/\x1C9 \x7F \x1C3 /' | sed '/ -/s/:/\x1C1/g' | sed '/ +/s/:/\x1C2/g' > /tmp/textfile | ||
+ | perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t A > /dev/alpha | ||
+ | else | ||
+ | |||
+ | $EXEC $RSSURI | grep title |\ | ||
+ | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\.//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\"//' |\ | ||
+ | sed -e 's/\"//' |\ | ||
+ | head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\ | ||
+ | tail -n $(($LINES)) > /tmp/textfile | ||
+ | perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 1 > /dev/alpha | ||
+ | |||
+ | exit | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | fi | ||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==Make it Wireless== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===A USB Wifi Stick=== | ||
+ | In this case a [[w:Nintendo_Wi-Fi_USB_Connector | Nintendo WiFi USB connector]], which used to be widely available at every store that sold a Wii (before the CSIRO lawsuit). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Udev should pick this up automatically when inserted and load the proper kernel module. You can do a quick dmesg to make sure that it was recognized. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | # dmesg | tail -n4 | ||
+ | |||
+ | usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2 | ||
+ | usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice | ||
+ | phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' | ||
+ | usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb | ||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Software=== | ||
+ | Get wpasupplicant and wireless tools (throw in bridge-utils for later) | ||
+ | |||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | apt-get install wpasupplicant wireless-tools bridge-utils | ||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | I use WPA on my network, so I used wpa_passphrase to generate the basic contents of /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | wpa_passphrase ESSID passphrase | ||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | Here is what mine looks like: | ||
+ | |||
+ | /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf | ||
+ | |||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | # WPA-PSK/TKIP | ||
+ | network={ | ||
+ | ssid="ESSID" | ||
+ | key_mgmt=WPA-PSK | ||
+ | proto=WPA | ||
+ | pairwise=TKIP | ||
+ | group=TKIP | ||
+ | psk=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | Edit the interfaces file (I used a static configuration, you could always use DHCP instead): | ||
+ | |||
+ | /etc/network/interfaces | ||
+ | |||
+ | <pre> | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # we always want the loopback interface | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | auto lo | ||
+ | iface lo inet loopback | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # default dynamic setup (no adjustment necessary) | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # auto eth0 | ||
+ | # iface eth0 inet dhcp | ||
+ | hostname `hostname` | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | # sample wireless setup | ||
+ | # | ||
+ | auto wlan0 | ||
+ | iface wlan0 inet static | ||
+ | wireless-essid ESSID | ||
+ | address 192.168.1.145 | ||
+ | gateway 192.168.1.1 | ||
+ | dns-nameservers 192.186.1.1, 69.50.168.189 | ||
+ | netmask 255.255.255.0 | ||
+ | wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf | ||
+ | </pre> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Test it out=== | ||
+ | Restart networking or reboot the box, you should be able to login on the address you gave the box | ||
+ | (192.168.1.145 in this example) | ||
+ | with the ethernet unplugged! | ||
+ | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references /> | <references /> |
Revision as of 17:25, 11 November 2012
2009-1 3rd Place Contest Winner!
You can find one of these signs for less than $100. |
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220 Full Matrix, (Case 37.7" x 3.8" x 2.9 ") Tricolor[1] |
Contents
Install a Serial Port Interface
In this case a KuroBoxPro was used however any Linkstation could be used by accessing the serial port interface.
First, install a serial port interface. There are two physical serial ports on the KuroBoxPro. One serial port on the bottom[2] which is the same as the port on the Linkstation Pro and one on the daughterboard accessible from the front. Both are addressed as /dev/ttyS0. Consider soldering in a pinheader rather than the pressure connector used in the LSPRO method.
The cheapest TTL/RS232 converter found was from futurelec, however the order is shipped from thailand so it takes 2-3 weeks to get it. | The sign uses a 6 conductor RJ-12 Jack. A snap in RJ-12 jack is used to interface the sign to the serial port converter | The serial port board/connector are then enclosed in a 2 port surface mount housing |
Interface Sign to Serial Port Interface
A standard 6 wire telephone cable meant for a two line phone is used (a 4 wire one will not work) Plug one end into the sign, and one end into the Quick port RJ-12 Jack. Wire the jack into the serial port board as such[3]
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Setup the serial port
Adjust the serial port settings, below is a script to do this. This information comes from a FAQ on using the Alpha sign with Linux[4].
Basically this
- Links /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/alpha
- Gives everyone read/write access to your sign (/dev/alpha)
- Provides a 9600,E,7,1 connection to the sign (/dev/alpha)
setledsign
# /usr/local/bin/setledsign #!/bin/sh rm /dev/alpha ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/alpha chmod a+rw /dev/alpha stty 9600 -opost -ocrnl -onlcr cs7 parenb -parodd < /dev/alpha
Wake up the sign and display something on it
alphamon.pl
# alphamon.pl # #!/usr/bin/perl # # Script will display the contents of /tmp/textfile to the ALPHA 220C LED # Display # # Usage # # alphamon.pl [MODE TAG] [COLORTAG] # Get the attention of the sign print "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"; # Tell the sign to print the message $message = `cat /tmp/textfile` ; print "\001" . "Z" . "00" . "\002" . "AA" . "\x1B" . " $ARGV[0]" . "\x1C" . "$ARGV[1]" . $message . "\004";
Alpha Sign Syntax
"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0" | "\001" | "Z" | "00" | "\002" | "AA" | "\x1B" | "t" | "\x1C" | "1" | Hello World | "\004" |
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Value | Meaning | Code Type |
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\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0 | NULL | String of Null packets to get attention of sign |
\001 | SOH | Start of Header |
Z | Direct at all Signs | Type Code |
00 | All Signs Should Listen | Sign Address |
\002 | Start of Text Character | Start Type |
A | Text File | Write File Type |
A | A | File Label |
\x1B | ESC | Start of Mode Field |
t | compressed text | MODE TAG (see below) |
\x1C | color control code | Control Code |
1 | red | COLORTAG (see below) |
Hello World | Text Message | |
\004 | EOT | End of Transmission |
MODE TAG and COLORTAG
The key parts of this are the MODE TAG and COLORTAG, there is full documentation available for this[5]but here are the pertinent parts.
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Ticker (Stock, Weather, News)
The sign can be used for a number of purposes (to display weather forecasts from an RSS feed, to display news feeds as a news ticker) As a proof of concept the following script uses the sign to display a stock ticker that gets it's data from Yahoo! it then colors the prices
GREEN if they are positive/up
and
RED if they are negative/down
for the day
Here it is in action: (clip from a cell phone so quality is somewhat poor) |
This clip shows it fetching weather Stock quotes and news. This one happens to be running on a Seagate Dockstar |
First install perl and make
apt-get install perl make
Then install the quote package [6]
wget http://www.circlemud.org/pub/jelson/quote/quote-0.05.tar.gz tar -xvzf quote-0.05.tar.gz cd quote-0.05 ./configure ./make ./make install
install curl and lynx so that they can be used later to get content from the web.
apt-get install curl lynx
Lastly here is a shell script to display the ticker
leddisplay
#! /bin/bash #------------- # leddisplay- #------------- # # A Script to display stock quotes, weather information, and news " # on the ALPHA220C Sign" # # usage leddisplay [flag] " # s = stock quotes" # w = weather " # n = news " # # #==================== # User Set Variables= #==================== # # Weather Url # WURI=http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/illinois/chicago-12784260/ # # News Feed URL # RSSURI=http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews/ # # Stock ticker symbols # stocks=" ^DJI ^IXIC ^GSPC AAPL" # # LINES=10 #Number of headlines EXEC="/usr/bin/curl -s" #Path to curl dow=$(date +%u) hour=$(date +%k) PTE=/usr/local/bin # Script Body if [ $1 == "" ] then exit fi if [ $1 == "w" ] then lynx -dump $WURI | sed -n '/ Today/,/Tomorrow/p' | sed -e '$d' > /tmp/textfile perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 2 > /dev/alpha exit fi if [ $1 == "n" ] then $EXEC $RSSURI | grep title |\ sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\ sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\ sed -e 's/\.//' |\ sed -e 's/\"//' |\ sed -e 's/\"//' |\ head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\ tail -n $(($LINES)) > /tmp/textfile perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 1 > /dev/alpha exit fi if [ $1 == "s" ] then quote $stocks | cut -d"(" -f1 |sed 's/^/\x1C9 \x7F \x1C3 /' | sed '/ -/s/:/\x1C1/g' | sed '/ +/s/:/\x1C2/g' > /tmp/textfile perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t A > /dev/alpha exit fi clear echo "leddisplay" echo "---------- " echo " " echo " A Script to display stock quotes, weather information, and news " echo " on the ALPHA220C Sign" echo " " echo " usage leddisplay [flag] " echo " s = stock quotes" echo " w = weather " echo " n = news " echo " "
leddisplay-timeofday
#! /bin/bash # # News Feed URL # RSSURI=http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews/ # # Stock ticker symbols # stocks=" ^DJI ^IXIC ^GSPC AAPL " # # Weather Url # WURI=http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/illinois/chicago-12784260/ # LINES=10 #Number of headlines EXEC="/usr/bin/curl -s" #Path to curl dow=$(date +%u) hour=$(date +%k) PTE=/usr/local/bin if [ $hour -ge 5 ] && [ $hour -le 8 ] then lynx -dump $WURI | sed -n '/ Today/,/Tomorrow/p' | sed -e '$d' > /tmp/textfile perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 2 > /dev/alpha exit fi if [ $hour -ge 16 -o $hour -le 5 ] then $EXEC $RSSURI | grep title |\ sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\ sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\ sed -e 's/\.//' |\ sed -e 's/\"//' |\ sed -e 's/\"//' |\ head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\ tail -n $(($LINES)) > /tmp/textfile perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 1 > /dev/alpha exit fi if [ $dow -ge 1 ] && [ $dow -le 5 ] then quote $stocks | cut -d"(" -f1 |sed 's/^/\x1C9 \x7F \x1C3 /' | sed '/ -/s/:/\x1C1/g' | sed '/ +/s/:/\x1C2/g' > /tmp/textfile perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t A > /dev/alpha else $EXEC $RSSURI | grep title |\ sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\ sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\ sed -e 's/\.//' |\ sed -e 's/\"//' |\ sed -e 's/\"//' |\ head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\ tail -n $(($LINES)) > /tmp/textfile perl $PTE/alphamon.pl t 1 > /dev/alpha exit fi
Make it Wireless
A USB Wifi Stick
In this case a Nintendo WiFi USB connector, which used to be widely available at every store that sold a Wii (before the CSIRO lawsuit).
Udev should pick this up automatically when inserted and load the proper kernel module. You can do a quick dmesg to make sure that it was recognized.
# dmesg | tail -n4 usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb
Software
Get wpasupplicant and wireless tools (throw in bridge-utils for later)
apt-get install wpasupplicant wireless-tools bridge-utils
I use WPA on my network, so I used wpa_passphrase to generate the basic contents of /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_passphrase ESSID passphrase
Here is what mine looks like:
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# WPA-PSK/TKIP network={ ssid="ESSID" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=WPA pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP psk=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX }
Edit the interfaces file (I used a static configuration, you could always use DHCP instead):
/etc/network/interfaces
# # we always want the loopback interface # auto lo iface lo inet loopback # # default dynamic setup (no adjustment necessary) # # auto eth0 # iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname `hostname` # # sample wireless setup # auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static wireless-essid ESSID address 192.168.1.145 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 192.186.1.1, 69.50.168.189 netmask 255.255.255.0 wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Test it out
Restart networking or reboot the box, you should be able to login on the address you gave the box (192.168.1.145 in this example) with the ethernet unplugged!