Raspberry Pi Weather Display

A small tool that gets weather forecasts from the internet and displays it on an e-ink display.

The e-ink display is a Waveshare 6inch HD model with a resolution of 1448*1072: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/6inch_HD_e-Paper_HAT

Notable dependencies are:

1. The IT8951 driver to interface with the e-ink display: github.com/GregDMeyer/IT8951
2. A wrapper around the OpenWeatherMap web API: github.com/csparpa/pyowm
3. Weather icons: github.com/erikflowers/weather-icons

There is also a CAD model of an enclosure that can be 3D printed: enclosure.stl

Currently 2 weather providers are supported. They are both free but signup is required to get the necessary API key:

• openweathermap.org/api
• tomorrow.io/weather-api

Photos

Example display image:

Photo of completed unit:

Install

Install package requirements using apt if running on a Raspberry Pi:

apt update
apt install python3-pandas python3-pil python3-matplotlib python3-scipy python3-pip

Or with pip if running on a normal computer:

pip install "scipy>=1.1.0" "Pillow>=7.1.2" "pandas>=0.23" "matplotlib>=3.0.2"

Then install this tool using pip:

pip3 install https://github.com/FutureSharks/rpi-weather-display/archive/master.zip

And run it and it will update the e-ink display:

rpi-weather-display --api-key <OMW API key>

And to optionally run it via cron:

echo -e '#!/bin/sh\npgrep -f /usr/local/bin/rpi-weather-display > /dev/null || (rpi-weather-display --api-key <API key> &)' > /etc/cron.hourly/rpi-weather-display
chmod 0755 /etc/cron.hourly/rpi-weather-display