makepanic / eink-weather

simple eink weather dashboard

E-Ink weather

This is a small html snippet that allows you to generate a weather dashboard to be displayed on an e-ink reader.

E-Ink reader

• I'm currently using it with a dying Kindle 4
  • it has do be jailbroken
  • it runs online-screensaver to load an image from a server I control

Configuration

• This project requires the following environment variables to be set:
  • LAT - a latitude
  • LON - a longitude
  • OPENWEATHER_KEY - a valid OpenWeather api key

Installation

• ensure GraphicsMagick is installed
  • This is required to convert the screenshot to black and white
• install dependencies yarn install
• start a http server (e.g. python3 -m http.server 9999)
• run node scrot.js to take a screenshot of the html page
• upload the generated screenshot to the server that is loaded by online-screensaver

Screenshots

Name	Screenshot
Rendered output
Displayed on a kindle