Its not an app, just type the ip address of the clock into your browser.
If dont know it use a network scanner app to find
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DMD clocks - Colour 2020 version!!
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If dont know it use a network scanner app to find
http://192.168.1.229/ - probably.
Thanks all - gained access and all sorted.
Good to hear you’re sorted. For future - Fing is a good app for finding IP addresses on your network.
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Apologies @Dave Bishop - Still recovering from non-covid manflu, so wasnt able to update you over the weekend...
OK - so new issue with the clock- nothing on display.
I went into settings and all the brightness was set to 0.
Changed that for every hour - nothing
Turned it off and back on- no start up screen at all.
I have taken it off the wall and back into the house. When I connect to the app and change something the green light flickers then goes off. Nothing on display at all.
Any suggestions @Paul @MadNat
Thanks
I went into settings and all the brightness was set to 0.
Changed that for every hour - nothing
Turned it off and back on- no start up screen at all.
I have taken it off the wall and back into the house. When I connect to the app and change something the green light flickers then goes off. Nothing on display at all.
Any suggestions @Paul @MadNat
Thanks
you have lost the panel settings as well. it’s a known problem where these clocks lose all the settings. happened to me twice.
the panel settings are in a post somewhere in this thread
think it’s
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32
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the panel settings are in a post somewhere in this thread
think it’s
64
32
2
1
2
rgb
11
back in business! Thanks 
That is a pain in the backside - when it loses those settings. It happens in a number of scenarios - entering the wrong url (eg history/url recall) and clicking save more than once (it’s not the most responsive ui- so an easy mistake).
My advice is to take a copy of the sd card. Sometimes it’s easier to burn a new sd card than scramble with searching for a up address and re-entering settings
My advice is to take a copy of the sd card. Sometimes it’s easier to burn a new sd card than scramble with searching for a up address and re-entering settings
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For reference (not sure if i have posted before...) - as initially configured....
Do you need to take the frame apart to get to the SD card?
I took a backup of what I could see when I connected to the clock via my laptop and browsed to the drive - would that be all the same data i'd see on the SD card or are there some more hidden files?
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Long nosed pliers down through the top of the display - is a MicroSD mounted in one end of the Pi
This method copies the files, but you won’t be able to create a bootable SD card from it easily. Doing a SD card image copy was also much faster than doing a network transfer for me. Could be a slow WiFi connection, or the many small files - but for some reason a network copy for me took a ridiculous amount of time - I cancelled it as it was taking so long.
Quite a few sd image copy apps out there for various OS’s and devices.
...actually I think there is a dim green light
False alarm. It's suddenly burst into life. I think the time has gone out of sync or something.
Question, I've just done a DIY job of one of the clocks, all works but there is an audible high frequency whine coming from the Pi, its most noticeable when the displays flash it seems, but it's there all the time.
I've got the display power and Pi USB power spliced together and then attached to a barrel connector out to a 5V/10A PSU, but running the Pi independently off a separate PSU doesn't seem to make much difference.
Definitaly the Pi making the noise, and it does it with the GPIO board disconnected too.
Anyone else got a noisy clock? or any ideas?
I've got the display power and Pi USB power spliced together and then attached to a barrel connector out to a 5V/10A PSU, but running the Pi independently off a separate PSU doesn't seem to make much difference.
Definitaly the Pi making the noise, and it does it with the GPIO board disconnected too.
Anyone else got a noisy clock? or any ideas?
Sounds like interferance to me, maybe try a ferrite core on cables etc to see if it makes a difference.
also maybe try a different psu for your pi if you have one available
also maybe try a different psu for your pi if you have one available
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Yeah, something not quite right, it's audible most obviously when the displays flash white pixels
My first guess was the Pi, second is the PSU, third was I'd done something daft with trying to power the panels and pi from the same PSU - I've taken a USB A to micro cable, cut the USB A end off and joined it by wrapping the wires together with the respective + - from the panels and then screwed them onto the female barrel connector's terminals, but this is what's in the guide as far as the pictures and google translate tell me
But running the Pi off it's own standard PSU had kind of ruled it innocent in my mind, that said I wanted to run an extension up to the clock on the wall which meant adding a 1.5m lead on the DC side of the PSU and doing that resulted in nothing at all from the Pi - no signs of life at all.
Ordered a new 5v 15A PSU and 3B from Amazon, both the originals are within the ship back window, so I'll do some swapping around.
Bloody love the clock though - looks great up on the wall
My first guess was the Pi, second is the PSU, third was I'd done something daft with trying to power the panels and pi from the same PSU - I've taken a USB A to micro cable, cut the USB A end off and joined it by wrapping the wires together with the respective + - from the panels and then screwed them onto the female barrel connector's terminals, but this is what's in the guide as far as the pictures and google translate tell me
But running the Pi off it's own standard PSU had kind of ruled it innocent in my mind, that said I wanted to run an extension up to the clock on the wall which meant adding a 1.5m lead on the DC side of the PSU and doing that resulted in nothing at all from the Pi - no signs of life at all.
Ordered a new 5v 15A PSU and 3B from Amazon, both the originals are within the ship back window, so I'll do some swapping around.
Bloody love the clock though - looks great up on the wall
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Turn the brightness down... it's probably coming from the PSU... see if that makes a difference..
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I shipped mine mostly somewhere between 0 and 20 for the brightness. In a well lit room to be honest you still only need to get up to 30 brightness. If you run these at anything over 50 or 60 then you need shades!!
To match their insert LEDs.... [ducks]
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Hi
My clock has stopped working - I don't even get the initial splash screen & IP display. What's my diagnostic path?
I've taken the SD card out & tried it in my PC - there's an unreadable partition (ext3?) & some others that show up fine.
Is there any point attaching a HDMI screen?
Regards, Stewart
My clock has stopped working - I don't even get the initial splash screen & IP display. What's my diagnostic path?
I've taken the SD card out & tried it in my PC - there's an unreadable partition (ext3?) & some others that show up fine.
Is there any point attaching a HDMI screen?
Regards, Stewart
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First things first - light on psu? Light on pi?
When you power on, do you get the red light on the power supply and then on the pi the (I think from memory) red power and green light next to it flashing?? This is looking from the bottom of the unit)… [emoji1303]
Don’t worry - we’ll get it sorted
When you power on, do you get the red light on the power supply and then on the pi the (I think from memory) red power and green light next to it flashing?? This is looking from the bottom of the unit)… [emoji1303]
Don’t worry - we’ll get it sorted