Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Magic alarm clock
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@Albinolan So use a pi with 10" touchscreen and motion sensor on it…
Plenty of that around here… the motion sensors are really cheap… I have several… I buy them 5 at a time
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I’ve had mine running for almost a year now… works REALLY well…
You can make it look anyway you want :) That’s the beauty of CSS
Let me know if I can help in anyway!
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@cowboysdude May I ask, what did you use for the frame around the display? I am thinking of either 3d printing or painting/wrapping wood
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@Albinolan My printer wouldn’t print that big so I bought a wooden one like this…
http://www.eleduino.com/Raspberry-Pi-Official-7-Touchscreen-Display-Case-100%25-Bamboo-Made-p10581.html - but the 10" version.
You can build the frame out of anything you can think of … 3d printing would have been my choice :) ABS
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If I decide to rebuild it I would do my own frame because I’d like to get the speaker as part of the frame… currently it just sits behind it… and I use the alarm module @strawberry built…it works REALLY well :)
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What you could do is just use the Carousel module to switch screens or use MMM-Scheduler to get what you want or a combination of both :)
I use scheduler because depending on what time of day I have different things displayed and at night it turns completely off so it doesn’t keep me awake.
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@cowboysdude have you got any ideas on how I block the blacklight so it could be kept it on at night? I’m thinking about using a variant of 1 way glass but would love your opinion.
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@cowboysdude I know this is like 7 months later, but my parts only just arrived. Do you have any ideas on ways to block the backlight? a mirror order isn’t exactly possible with the cost, I was thinking maybe blockout blinds or some kind of privacy glass layer?
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I’d think there should be a way to control the dimming of the display. kind of like using night mode on a smartphone. Not sure how one would get it to work off the top of my head, but I would think it would be the cheapest and probably easiest way to go about it.
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You might also look at these modules:
https://github.com/Txukie/MMM-LCDControl
Sounds like they may have the LCD control you are possibly looking for…
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@justjim1220 thanks for that, however it appears that it just turns off the display. I am either looking for a way to drop the backlight lower than default minimum (probably impossible) or some way of putting a layer to block most light.
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For those using the official 7" display you can use MMM-Screendimmer
Or write directly to /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness
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@emlowe Thanks, but I can’t since I use the 10.1" adafruit display, looking at the pinout it seems there is a way to control it, but I will have to manually wire it to the pi and write up a driver.
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