rpiBigBen

An RPi Big-Ben project. Turn a raspberry pi into a big-ben clock.

Required

• Raspberry pi / anything running linux
• Speakers
• mpv audio software
• big-ben strikes sound files

Update RPi

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install mpv

sudo apt-get install mpv
mkdir /home/pi/big-ben
cd /home/pi/big-ben

Use these files for 1hrs/30 mins strikes

Under soundFile, 2 files downloaded from the British-Parliment website.

• https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/big-ben/anniversary-year/

Or

• https://github.com/danistark1/rpiBigBen/tree/master/soundsfiles

Create a bash script to read the current time

Under clockScript, this script will run every 1hr and every 30 mins.

Create a cronjob to run the script

Create this cron job to run the created clock script. crontab -e

0,30 * * * * bash /home/pi/big-ben/clock.sh (if you want it to run all day)
0,30 9,10,11,12,15,16,17,18,19,20 * * * bash /home/pi/big-ben/clock.sh (certain hours of the day)

0,30 9,10,11,12,17,18,19,20 * * * bash /home/pi/big-ben/clock.sh