{"repo":"nothans/cable-82","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/nothans/cable-82","clone":"git clone https://github.com/nothans/cable-82.git","description":"Your own 1982 cable community bulletin board channel - time, messages, weather, dad jokes, and live headlines on any screen, ideally an old CRT fed by a Raspberry Pi.","language":"JavaScript","stars":20,"topics":["1980s","bulletin-board","cable-tv","crt","dad-jokes","fun-facts","news","nostalgia","raspberry-pi","rss"],"license":"MIT","category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"CABLE 82 Your own 1982 cable community bulletin board channel. Before feeds, your town had a channel: blue screens, chunky text, the time and temperature, the church bake sale, headlines crawling along the bottom. CABLE 82 recreates that channel and points it at your life. It turns any screen - ideally an old 4:3 CRT fed by a Raspberry Pi - into a scrolling rotation of the date and time, your community messages, fun facts, dad jokes, and live headlines from feeds you choose. You make the channel yours in a control room at /config - or by editing one plain config.json file. Read the build story on nothans.com, watch the one-minute video of it on the air, or leave the full six-minute demo playing. Weather is one optional strip - current conditions, hi/lo, and sunrise/sunset - fed by Open-Meteo (free, no account). For a full retro weather channel , ws4kp does that beautifully. The time The weather A dad joke :---: :---: :---: Quick start You need Node.js 18 or newer. Open http://localhost:1982 in a browser. You are on the air. Then open the control room at http://localhost:1982/config : your name, your messages, your feeds, your colors, your page lineup. Hit Save and the channel picks it up within about twenty seconds, no reload. (Prefer a text editor? Everything lives in config.json ; edit it directly and the channel still updates.) The screen 1. Header band - channel name and the live time and date, always visible. 2. Pages - full-screen colored pages that hard-cut every 12 se","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/nothans","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/nothans/cable-82/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}