eink-dashboard 📺

https://jamesjarvis.io/projects/eink-dashboard/

A fun little rarely updating dashboard

Currently, this repo is just an assortment of random views I am creating for the display:

view	script
Map with precipitation radar overlaid in red	Mappyboi
Cowsay with Dad jokes	Cowsay

Disclaimer, this is not my best work - but it's been a bit of lockdown fun :D

Installation

This requires python3 installed, as well as some other additional components.

Probs worth following this stuff https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7.5inch_e-Paper_HAT_(B)#Demo_code

Then clone the repo onto the RPI, and create a new settings.py file from the example provided

In order to run the scripts, just run

python3 mappyboi.py

Or whack it in a cron job to be run every 10 minutes with crontab -e and inputting the following:

*/10 * * * * python3 /home/pi/mappyboi.py