Interactive Schedule board

Probably should’ve called it fun with Raspberry Pi’s

So, I setup a schedule board in the office with a Raspberry Pi for our sprinkler department. We had a large monitor and I wanted something self-contained and easy. I have been messing around with Raspberry Pi’s and this seemed a good fit. I set it up to auto login and start then auto open a web page with the schedule in excel format. I used Microsoft One Drive to host the document (It’s free), and everyone can get to it and edit it from any device or the board itself. I also set it up not to sleep the display. It is passive power so no cords but the one for the TV. It also means if you need to reboot just power off and on the TV. It is accessible over the network and I can run other programs on it or air play to it. I can also run the Pi itself remotely. It ended up being a really slick way to display information throughout our business and other then the monitor it was $80

DIY List not including monitor.

You need a HDMI and a USB slot for power on the monitor. You need a Raspberry Pi, SD chip, Wifi USB, and USB keyboard with touch pad, cost $75 dollars. I 3D printed a case and keypad stand FOC because I am just that nice (cost me $0.75 materials).You can get one for $5 online.

If you have messed with them before here is the setup 

Get midori

sudo apt-get install midori

 Force the screen to stay on

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Add the following lines to the [SeatDefaults] section:

# don't sleep the screen

xserver-command=X -s 0 dpms

Auto start

sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

or if you have a PI 2 sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

 Add the following lines

@xset s off

@xset -dpms

@xset s noblank

@midori -e Fullscreen –a http:// (your web page)

 Config auto login

sudo raspi-config

Set option 3 Enable Boot to Desktop/Scratch -- "Desktop log in as user 'pi' at graphical desktop"

That’s it