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Weather forecast is from this page ( ), which provides forecast widget for Slovenian cities, but I guess widgets for other countries could be found as well on the internet. I’ve designed my page, so that on the left side the calendar is shown ( ), while on the right side time and date are shown ( and ). Anyway, some HTML programming knowledge is be needed for this. You can use one of the many provided themes, or design from scratch. With Wordpress installed, it was time to design my homepage.
#Smart wall monitor how to
Here’s the tutorial on how to install Wordpress on Raspberry Pi. I’ve chosen, since it’s well documented and has good support and large community to help you. I’ve decided to set up my own web server and create a web page, which will show additional information besides the calendar. This worked nicely, however I was looking for some solution, which could be more customized according to my wishes. I recommend you to follow this tutorial, at least for the first part with the instructions on preparing and setting up the system on Raspberry, so that the browser auto-loads the desired web page on boot. They provide the finished product (the display, computer and working software), but they also have an excellent tutorial for DIY solution ( ). When I was looking over the internet for some clues, how to build calendar, I was inspired by this page. This looked well, so I connected all the cables, plugged in HDMI to my old Raspberry Pi and Voila – it worked! There was a picture showing on the display, so I was ready to move on the next step – what information to show on the display and how to show it. So I took four black plastic slide-on binders, which are typically used for binding sheets of paper, trimmed them accordingly and attached them to cover the frame. Initially I spray painted it to black, but the paint started to peel off. Now the LCD display has metallic frame, which doesn’t look pretty.
#Smart wall monitor driver
I also purchased a nice 14.5×7.5×2cm plastic box to fit the driver board nicely and attach it to the back side of the LCD. Please note, you’ll also need the power supply for the display, so ask the seller to send it too. I provided the seller the product code, which could be found on the back side of the LCD, in my case it is LP171WE3 (TL)(A2) - see bottom right label on last picture, and then he sent me the appropriate LVDS. I dismantled the cover of my old laptop, took out the LCD display and then ordered the correct LVDS driver board. There are several tutorials on how to do this, I followed this one: I used the LCD screen from my old obsolete laptop. Various cables (HDMI, 5.5mm for DC power, solderless breadboard jumper cables, …) Black plastic slide-on binder for LCD frame Plastic storage box for the electronics
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I used the screen from my old laptop, so I only needed to buy LVDS driver board for it and the power supply It worked, but the web page editing and reloading took me a lot of time, so I eventually swapped to model 3, which works more fluently Initially I used my old model 2 from some other project. However some items I had to buy, so I will list all that is necessary for the construction. Some basic programming knowledge is needed (HTML, Python, …).Īs mentioned before, I tried to reuse as many old electronic parts to keep the costs down. This tutorial is based on several other tutorials I found on the internet and I will give the links to them for better understanding. It will be powered by a Raspberry Pi computer with a Passive Infrared Sensor (PIR) motion sensor attached to it, so that the display turns on, when motion is detected in the room, but turns off after few minutes of inactivity. It will also display time, date, weather, temperature and some additional information. In this tutorial I will show you, how to build smart wall calendar, displaying events from several Google accounts. Since I have various old electronic parts lying around, my goal was to reuse them as many as possible and build the calendar with as little costs as possible.
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So I decided to build some sort of smart wall calendar, which will display our reminders, events and some other data.
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We also use Google calendar on our smart phones for marking events, so this meant double work. My wife and I used to have classic paper wall calendar, on which we marked important dates.