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Display board for E-paper display

Paper-Board

Display board for E-paper display

Installation

You have to install following dependencies

BCM2835 library

wget http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-1.60.tar.gz
tar zxvf bcm2835-1.60.tar.gz 
cd bcm2835-1.60/
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make check
sudo make install

Other dependencies

sudo apt-get install libopenjp2-7 libatlas-base-dev

Now we can install the package locally (for use on our system), with:

pip install .

We can also install the package with a symlink, so that changes to the source files will be immediately available to other users of the package on our system:

pip install -e .

Configuration

The configuration file is put under `~/.config/paper-board/config.ini

Here is an example of configuration

[weather]
api_token=<OWM API Token>
location=Seattle

Get API credentials

Open Weather Map API

Get the weather API Key from Weather API page Then, add API Code to your config file.