MiSTer FPGA Forum

• 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

• 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

neogeo81 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 7:31 am Any chance of buying a already setup set?

AngelicLiver wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:02 am This is an awesome project, thanks!

I still haven't managed to get this working with the ESP32 I2C Matrix module I used (couldn't get hold of a Trinity board anywhere). Admittedly I haven't taken the time to work out the kinks mind you, I'm guessing the pins are different.

  
  //Pins for an Adafruit Feather ESP32-S2
  mxconfig.gpio.b1 = 39;
  mxconfig.gpio.b2 = 12;
  mxconfig.gpio.g1 = 10;
  mxconfig.gpio.g2 = 13;
  mxconfig.gpio.r1 = 38;
  mxconfig.gpio.r2 = 11;
  mxconfig.gpio.a = 18;
  mxconfig.gpio.b = 17;
  mxconfig.gpio.c = 16;
  mxconfig.gpio.d = 15;
  mxconfig.gpio.clk = 9;
  mxconfig.gpio.lat = 5;
  mxconfig.gpio.oe = 6;
  

RealLarry wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 1:08 pm Are you planning an updater script for your MiSTer files? I'm asking because I've made a simple all inclusive updater and already included your project for future use. It is named tty2rgb there, but could be renamed to web2rgbmatrix or whatever if your updater would become available...

kconger wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 4:06 pm

RealLarry wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 1:08 pm Are you planning an updater script for your MiSTer files? I'm asking because I've made a simple all inclusive updater and already included your project for future use. It is named tty2rgb there, but could be renamed to web2rgbmatrix or whatever if your updater would become available...

Thank you for the offer! I do plan on adding one at some point. (...) 'll reach out when I have something ready.

Since tty2rgb is a different project I think it would be best to call it something like web2rgb.

kconger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:34 am After seeing @hellbent's awesome tty2rgbmatrix project(viewtopic.php?t=5078) I was inspired to create a wireless RGB matrix marquee for my MiSTer setup. This weekend I finished my project and posted the details on GitHub, I hope others find it helpful.

venice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 2:08 pm

kconger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:34 am After seeing @hellbent's awesome tty2rgbmatrix project(viewtopic.php?t=5078) I was inspired to create a wireless RGB matrix marquee for my MiSTer setup. This weekend I finished my project and posted the details on GitHub, I hope others find it helpful.

Congratulations, this is a very cool thing!

How do you bind the displays with the wooden frame?
With adapters and screws from the back side?

Note, we added -qq to our inotifywait‘s for console quietness if we are not running debug mode.

• ESP32 Trinity Board ordered from Makerfabs.
  https://www.makerfabs.com/esp32-trinity.html
  Shipping to Germany was quite fast.

• Micro SD Reader for 3.3V.
  https://eckstein-shop.de/MicroSDBreakou ... o32C3V6Pin

• Waveshare HUB75 Display with 64x32 3mm LED's, Size 192×96mm with all needed cables and a dimming black Acrylic front panel.
  https://www.berrybase.de/rgb-vollfarb-l ... helligkeit
  Waveshare Wiki: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/RGB-Matrix-P3-64x32

venice wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:56 am Hi,
as some of hellbent's really great animated gifs doesn't have the Game Logo as last Picture within the gif (because of the gif loop), e.g. MarioBros,
I had the idea to play these animated gifs at first (if there is one availbale) from a different folder on SD, and if the video is over show the static gif.

This is similar to the function of tty2tft which plays available videos before the Logo is shown.

@kconger, what do you think?

venice wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:25 pm ...my Housing.

The size is about 40x10cm.
The back is (actually) made of cardboard and and holds magnetically. The magnets are part of the display accessories.

kconger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:34 am After seeing @hellbent's awesome tty2rgbmatrix project(viewtopic.php?t=5078)...

venice wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:01 pm Thx.

kconger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:34 am After seeing @hellbent's awesome tty2rgbmatrix project(viewtopic.php?t=5078)...

"Awesome" is the right word for these two rgbmatrix projects.
Many many thanks to you and hellbent.

Note, the only thing that doesn't work for me is uploading gifs to SD.

venice wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 3:16 pm Using FTP with WinSCP the transfer was never finished, the Upload Dialog/Counter stays at 100% and doesn’t close.

The WebUi says Upload finished but the Picture was not found for showing it.

Both ways are showing a file on the SD Card but without further details like file size or date’s.

I am using an 8GB SD with Fat32.

Is the MiSTer Script able to upload pics to SD?

venice wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 3:16 pm Using FTP with WinSCP the transfer was never finished, the Upload Dialog/Counter stays at 100% and doesn’t close.

venice wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 3:16 pm The WebUi says Upload finished but the Picture was not found for showing it.

venice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 12:43 pm Jepp, FTP works fine now. I tried uploading and deleting a file.
Note, the Web Gui still shows v1.0.

I tried my tty2x Daemon (viewtopic.php?p=60138#p60138) with web2rgbmatrix but I only get the Corename shown on the Display.

kconger wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:58 pm Thanks for testing the tty client, I can't easily test without disassembling mine.

kconger wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:58 pm I released 1.2 which hopefully resolves tty support.

venice wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:08 pm

kconger wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:58 pm Thanks for testing the tty client, I can't easily test without disassembling mine.

That was the reason for me to use magnets
My are similar to these https://www.adafruit.com/product/4631

kconger wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:58 pm I released 1.2 which hopefully resolves tty support.

Thumbs Up, it works fine.

The Universal tty2x Daemon is now available at Github: https://github.com/venice1200/MiSTer_tty2x

venice wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:56 am Hi,
as some of hellbent's really great animated gifs doesn't have the Game Logo as last Picture within the gif (because of the gif loop), e.g. MarioBros,
I had the idea to play these animated gifs at first (if there is one availbale) from a different folder on SD, and if the video is over show the static gif.

This is similar to the function of tty2tft which plays available videos before the Logo is shown.

@kconger, what do you think?