digitlz / inky-dashboard

A dashboard for the inky pHat (1st gen) based on Angular.

Inky Dashboard

The idea

I had an inky pHat lying around and I decided that I wanted to have a small little dashboard that I could customise.
The approach is to have a website based on Angular that is fully customisable to develop components that you could then put on the eInk display.
This works by compiling the website, running a python server, taking a screenshot in the correct resolution and then painting it on to the display.

Setup

Basic setup

• Install inky pHat libraries (https://github.com/pimoroni/inky-phat)
• Install packages with npm i
• Setup chromium-browser on the Raspberry Pi

sudo apt install chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

How to run it

• Rename src/app/components/weather/weather_api.example.ts to weather_api.ts and add your apiKey from https://openweathermap.org/api
• Build with npm run build on the Raspberry Pi
• Display with npm run capture-and-write (run as cronjob to display regularly)