Raspberry Pi Chronometer

Turn your RaspberryPi in to an Internet Chronometer.

Display is a UCTRONICS 3.5 Inch HDMI display.

Features:

• Utilizes system time via NTP. All you need to provide is an internet connection.
• Customizable banner that can be changed in config.xml
• Customizable world clock timezones that can be changed in config.xml. Timezones must be in pytz format:

  import pytz
  for tz in pytz.all_timezones:
      print(tz)
  

Description

• TOP
  • Progress chart for current time units (Second, Minute, Hour, Day, Month, Year, Century).
• MIDDLE
  • World Clock
• BOTTOM
  • UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
  • MET - Metric Time
  • SOL - Solar Time
  • LST - Local Sidereal Time
  • UNX - Unix Epoch Time
  • SIT - Swatch Internet Time
  • NET - New Earth Time
  • HEX - Hexadecimal Time
  • Binary Clock
  • Daylight Savings Indicator
  • NTP Status (Server, Stratum, Delay, Offset)

Notes:

• In order to get the display to work with this code, you need to set the resolution to 480x320, and set the console font to VGA 8x14.
• longitude value needs to updated in chrono-config to ensure accurate solar time and sidereal time values. West longitude is indicated by a negative value.
• NTP daemon needs to be running as a background service: sudo apt install ntp

Required Python modules:

• pytz

Modules can be install using pip install [module] or from your distros repositories.