10 posts from the TCG Marquee blog, newest first. All posts
Show mode, timing, and brightness are now set per display, from one sheet. Plus a no-pictures LED board with price charts, charts that match the numbers, and firmware updates you control.
Vendors can now keep the market price off a card in show mode. Plus bolder card art on the LED board, a ticker fix, and an app for the newest Fire TV sticks.
Two firsts in one day. The LED board drew real cards on its panel for the first time, and the new Android TV app ran on a real Google TV stick. Here's how the tests went, what broke, and what's next.
The 128x64 LED panel for the TCG Marquee board arrived today. Until now the board has been running blind, sending everything it would draw to a log. Here's what comes next to get real cards glowing on it.
Firmware 0.2.8 adds a live log: the board shows what it's doing on a web page on your home network, so testing no longer needs a USB cable.
Each account now has a time zone, and the board dims at night by its own clock, at your local time, even offline and across daylight saving changes.
New firmware now runs on probation and the board goes back to the old version if it keeps crashing. The first test found a real bug, which is now fixed.
Loading the first 40 pages took 90 seconds. One request per batch, and keeping Wi-Fi awake, cut it to 7.4 seconds, installed as the first wireless update.
Firmware 0.2: set up Wi-Fi from your phone, collections of any size stream in batches, and new firmware installs over the air after a fingerprint check.
The MatrixPortal S3 arrived before the panel. The first firmware joins Wi-Fi, pairs with an account, and downloads the wall, all shown on a computer.
