dr-mod / air-raid-monitor

Air-raid sirens in Ukraine monitor device

Air Raid Monitor for Raspberry Pi

This device shows the current status of air raid sirens in Ukraine. The data is pulled every 10 seconds from https://sirens.in.ua/

Version of this widget for other platforms:

• Windows
• Linux
• macOS

Bill of materials

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• Waveshare eInk 2.13
• microSD
• micro-usb cable for power

Installation

1. Turn on SPI via sudo raspi-config

   Interfacing Options -> SPI
   

2. Install dependencies

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-pil python3-numpy python3-lxml git 
   pip3 install RPi.GPIO spidev svglib
   git clone https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git ~/e-Paper
   pip3 install ~/e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python/
   

3. Clone Air-raid Monitor

   git clone https://github.com/dr-mod/air-raid-monitor.git ~/air-raid-monitor
   

4. Run the application

   python3 ~/air-raid-monitor/main.py
   

Autostart

1. sudo apt-get install screen
2. sudo nano /etc/rc.local
3. Add the line number 4 before exit 0
4. su - pi -c "/usr/bin/screen -dm sh -c '/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/air-raid-monitor/main.py'"