Fast, Free, Easy Ham Clock Build Raspberry Pi

Step By Step Install Of HamClock On Raspberry PI.

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[SummitBidTech]

I love this. Yes, I happened to have a pi sitting around hardly in use and this took about 10 minutes to install and configure.
Super cool. I mean really.

[SummitBidTech]

Woa, good timing! My raspberry pi 5 arrives today and I reckon one of the first things I’ll do is follow this tutorial and install the ham clock pi !

[bjbackitis]

Thank you for sharing this... you led me to the missing pieces of the puzzle that had been infuriating me for years. I know have HamClock running on my Windows 11 desktop, not on the Raspberry Pi (already had that working... it was getting it on my Win machine that was the struggle). This is, for me, a tremendous technical accomplishment and victory on the same level as the "Eureka" moment for Archimedes (except for the whole running naked through the streets part, of course). Always get a lot out of your videos, but this one is a crowning achievement that I will be celebrating later with an Arturo Fuente Opus X robusto (cigar) and a pour from my bottle of Lagavulin 16 yr old single malt (scotch). 73 de BJ, KM4RB

[chrisgaeth]

Love my Ham Clock. I have one the is a Pi3B with the 7" touchscreen and I also run Ham Clock in a Docker container on one of my servers so I can hit it from any web browser on my network.

[deserteagle]

You could also run Ham Clock as a docker on any VPS or PI running docker containers.

[DonDegidio]

Hi Mike,
Another great video. If you want to see any of the DX clusters in any of the upper windows, on Page 5 select Top-Down as the cluster direction. 73 WJ3U

[jolebole-yt]

You can totally run this in a Linux VM in VirtualBox and run HamClock on a separate monitor in full screen . Nice simple guide 👌🏻

[NovemberOneOscarGrouch]

I just spent three days playing with installing a hamclock on a spare pi. There was more than once the resolution "broke" hamclock. Meaning it would say that it is running, but not be, and not have any way to close it out. The method that worked the best, and ultimately was the easiest was to leave it at 800x480 and then ssh from my PC and run [xrandr --output HDMI-1 --scale-from 800x480 --display :0] from the ssh terminal. The hamclock fully fills the TV screen with no black border. I think KM4ACK has an older video with a decent walkthrough. Now I wish I'd recorded my final install and configurations, so that maybe someone else won't have to struggle the way I did. Looks great now that it's done correctly.

[av]

Lolz, dude you said in another thread you didn't know anything about Linux?!? You are a pro, Mike! Kickin the terminal!

[loveshisharley]

For some reason the download was slow and stopped on my Pi 3A+, so I did the download on my 4B 8 gb, got it done! Then put the card in the Pi 3A+ and it works great! Thanks!

[LeeMcc_KIYPR]

I missed the live chat. The FAQ explains the video resolution. He uses bitmaps which are generated for each resolution. So adding more means more bitmaps, which is not easy. It is possible that volunteering to do the work would be welcome.

[loveshisharley]

For some reason the download and Pi was running very slow and eventually stopped at 13% download on my Pi 3A+, so I did the download on my Pi 4B 8 gb and got it done! I then put the card in the Pi 3A+ and it works great now! I don’t know why everything was so slow at first? I’m happy now. Thanks!

[TheGeekiestGuy]

Dammit YouTube. I hit the inform me when it goes live button and it didn't. It's starting to feel like they're dropping the ball on 2a content AND ham radio. Thanks for the content, Mike. You rock, brother. 🤙🏾

[martyes]

Give that pi more juice man, love the show...

[jimbajacamper]

Hay, thanks for showing this, I'm not the computer guy either, can you show how to add the desktop icon for this as I kinda meet up ! Thanks again !

[brickerhaus]

I am surprised that it is hardcoded to the resolution like that. Good video. We need to get one that is maybe a webpage so that you can dynamically view it, it would be easier to display it on other devices as well. Or heck serve the website out to the local network.

[JReed]

I have been running it for the last year on an Inovato Quadra. Very handy to have.

[jimbajacamper]

Hi, n thanks for the video, well, I'm new to this, I have a new pi400, and try, but get, this will only install in system using bullseye and other, ?, what do I do to fix this, (I tried second method, finally got it, ) now how to get out of full screen and add desktop icon ? Ok, understand now, got it, thanks bro 😊

[martinkulin]

Brilliant from the UK G6PGQ great easy vid

[slick]

I don't have this running as an app on my pi, I have it only accessible as a web page at the highest resolution. I have noticed that it resizes pretty will when I resize my browser window when accessed from another computer over my LAN. Folks might try configuring it for web viewing, the opening a browser and going to localhost then setting the browser to kiosk mode.