A daemon to fetch images from a Tronbyt server and display on a matrix LED display connected to a Raspberry Pi.
It has only been tested with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, but should work with all devices supported by https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix.
In order to avoid flickering, follow these steps (taken from https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix?tab=readme-ov-file#troubleshooting):
- Set
dtparam=audio=offin/boot/firmware/config.txt - Add
isolcpus=3at the end of/boot/firmware/cmdline.txt - Run
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rgb-matrix.conf
blacklist snd_bcm2835
EOF
sudo update-initramfs -u
- Reboot
Now download either the latest binary release from https://github.com/tronbyt/tronberry/releases onto your Pi or build the Tronbyt client yourself on the device:
# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install git libwebp-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev
# Clone repository
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tronbyt/tronberry.git
# Build
cd tronberry
make# The Tronbyt URL looks like http(s)://…/next or ws(s)://…/ws
sudo ./tronberry ${TRONBYT_URL}If you use tronberry with the original Tidbyt display, add the --led-panel-type=FM6126A flag. For a list of available options, run ./tronberry --help, there are many knobs to tweak.
To start tronberry at startup, create /etc/systemd/system/tronberry.service with the following content:
[Unit]
Description=Tronberry
After=network-online.target
[Service]
ExecStart=<ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_TRONBERRY> <TRONBYT_URL>
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.targetThen run sudo systemctl enable tronberry to enable the new service.
To start it manually, run sudo systemctl start tronberry.
You may want to configure your Pi to automatically reconnect to the WiFi in case the connection is interrupted, so that it'll display fresh images as soon as the WiFi becomes available again:
sudo nmcli connection modify "{YOUR_WIFI_SSID}" connection.autoconnect-retries 0