guppy0130 / esp8266-weather

Displaying DarkSky weather information every 5 minutes with an ESP8266 and a Waveshare E-Paper display

ESP8266 Weather Display

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Hardware

Components

• ESP8266 (I used a NodeMCU v1)
• Waveshare 1.54" E-Paper display

Build Instructions

1. Connect ESP8266 and Waveshare E-Paper display according to the ZinggJM/GxEPD repo

Software

Pre-reqs

• Arduino IDE (v1.8.5)
  • GxEPD library
  • ArduinoJSON library
  • ESP8266 Arduino Core
• DarkSky API Key

Build Instructions

1. Connect PC to ESP8266
2. Obtain drivers from silabs.com
3. Follow instructions from the esp8266/Arduino repo to set up IDE/board communication
4. Obtain DarkSky API key
5. Replace SSID, password, GMT offset, DarkSky API key, and GPS coordinates in sketch
6. Upload sketch to ESP8266