An LED scoreboard for Major League Baseball. Displays a live scoreboard for your team's game on that day.

Requires a Raspberry PI and an LED board hooked up via the GPIO pins.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ajbowler/mlb-led-scoreboard
pip install mlbgame

Install anything else your Pi yells at you for. I needed python-dev and a few native extensions for other stuff. Outside of scope of this project but this should at least help point people in the right direction.

Go into the matrix submodule and edit the HARDWARE_DESC? setting in lib/Makefile based on the docs. I used adafruit-hat since I'm using an Adafruit HAT.

Go back up to the root directory (mlb-led-scoreboard/) and run make to get the RGBMatrix binaries.

python main.py <team name> If team name isn't provided, the Cubs are used.

python main.py Cubs

This project relies on two libraries: MLBGame is the Python library used for retrieving live game data. rpi-rgb-led-matrix is the library used for making everything work with the LED board and is included as a submodule, so when cloning, make sure you add --recursive.

Since it's currently the offseason I have the game hardcoded as one of the 2016 Cubs-Indians World Series games. I'll update to be "today's game" when the season starts otherwise this thing is useless. I can't guarantee accurate data until it starts either.

Here are some images of it in action!