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March 26, 2013 at 6:53 pm
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rolf
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I have done a bit of programming in Python on a Raspberry Pi for sending data to an Alpha Clock Five. My clock has firmware version 2 with the GPS extensions, so if you have a different firmware, you might need to make changes. Please let me know if you find it useful, comments, corrections, etc…
Files in the above compressed archive:
AlphaClockFiveSerial.py – Library module, imported into each of the other files. If you just run it, all variables are displayed.
brightness – expects a command line parameter of an integer between 1 and 11.
reset – set all parameters back to somewhat sane defaults and sets the mode back to display time.
scroll – expects a quoted string of any length, a delay between updates, and a number of times to loop (between 1 and 99)
bedtime – I plan to add this to crontab to run at 8:15 PM to tell my three year old it is time for bed…
