Turing Music Clock — music player + digital/flip clock with CPU & GPU stats (Landscape) [3.5"]

[raphaeloreis]

Hi everyone! 👋

First off, a big thank you to @mathoudebine — this is built on top of turing-smart-screen-python's serial library, which let me focus entirely on the visuals. (Heads-up: it's a small fork / standalone app, not a YAML theme for System Monitor.)

Turing Music Clock turns the 3.5" screen into two things:

🎵 Now playing — album art, title and artist, read from the Windows media session (SMTC), over a blurred background.
🕐 Idle clock — when nothing is playing it becomes a clock, in two switchable styles:

• a 7-segment digital look (DSEG font)
• a split-flap / airport board look (Bebas Neue)

…both showing CPU/GPU temperature + usage and the date.

Now playing	Flip clock	Digital clock

A few extras:

• 🔌 Auto-reconnects if you unplug/replug the cable
• 🌑 Turns the screen off on shutdown (no frozen last frame)
• 🚀 One-command installer (venv + deps + optional autostart)
• 🪶 Lightweight (~0.5% CPU)

⚠️ Windows-only (uses winrt for media info). GPU temp/usage via nvidia-smi; CPU temperature via LibreHardwareMonitor.

Repo (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/raphaeloreis/turing-music-clock

Feedback welcome! 🙌

[raphaeloreis]

Quick follow-up in case it's useful 🙂

Happy to help anyone who wants to try it — the part that usually trips people up is CPU temperature, which needs LibreHardwareMonitor running as admin with its web server on (the README has a step-by-step + a troubleshooting section for it).

I'm also thinking about what to add next and would love your input:

• more idle info (RAM / network / disk)?
• a portrait layout?
• extra accent colors / clock styles?

Feedback and PRs very welcome 🙌