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A HUB75 Football Scoreboard That Only Needs WiFi
Yesterday's scoreboard needed Home Assistant, a HACS integration, and a blueprint. A day later there's a version where you flash the M-1 from a browser, join it to WiFi, tap your team on the device's own page, and that's the whole setup. The ESP32 talks to ESPN itself. This is what it took, including the bug that made every button on my fancy new page silently do nothing.
Turning a HUB75 Matrix into a Gameday Scoreboard
NFL kickoff week seemed like the right time to make my HUB75 matrix show live scores. One Saturday, 21 blueprint versions, and a lot of standing in the living room saying "run it again" later, my wall shows the game, my lights celebrate touchdowns, and switching teams is a dropdown instead of a reflash.
Turning four panels into one 128x128 display, then fixing the WLED docs
I connected four 64x64 panels to my WLED matrix to make one 128x128 display. Getting WLED to drive it as a single square took some figuring out, since the docs hadn't caught up with the grid feature yet. Here's the actual setup, why the 180 degree flip of the bottom row needs no software setting, and the docs update I sent back.