From 7d83dc54d3d6ae8a54d79ab3908a164d1845eb4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Hammond Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 01:04:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] update Readme --- README.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0f250a6..8fbaf62 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,16 @@ # LEDMessageBoard A Linux Driver for a LED Message Board. + +This is a little program I wrote to update the message displayed on a Led Message Board. + +The Message Board is available here: http://www.dx.com/p/programmable-scrolling-led-name-message-advertising-tag-badge-red-light-107826 + +There are two ways to update messages on the board: + +1) via a telnet connection to port 8000 (default) with a userid of Admin and password of "password" (can be set in /etc/LMBd.cfg) +2) writting to a file located in /var/spool/LMBd/message-<1-6> where 1-6 represents the message slot. + +There is also a sample python script that pulls some info from a zabbix server and displays it on the board. + +Any questions? just raise a new issue. +