Porter

(See it in action here)

A dashboard meant for raspberry pi + touchscreen to have an at-a-glance view of data for the home.

Features

• Upcoming (24 hour) weather, scrollable and inspired by the wonderful design of Weather Line.
• Alerts when precipitation is forecast within the hour (à la Dark Sky)
• Light control (using my own API... hope to set this up soon)
• Nearest Uber-X status
• Nearest Car2Go status with toggleable map
• NYC subway alerts
• "Should I bring my umbrella?" alert
• The current time

Prerequisites

This was all built exactly to the spec of the Official Raspberry Pi Display. I'm hardcoding a lot of the resolutions in here just for that, so be warned.

I run it on a RPI2.

WARNING: This really only works well on Wheezy at this point. I'm attempting to get it to work well on Jessie, but so far it's not perfect.

Installation

• Update and install requirements:

    sudo apt-get update
  

	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

	sudo apt-get install matchbox chromium x11-xserver-utils ttf-mscorefonts-installer xwit sqlite3 libnss3 apache2 xinput

If you're working with Jessie, this is gonna be a bit tougher. To install chromium, follow these instructions, but bear in mind it only works for RPI2.

• Edit/replace config files.

  • config.txt goes into the bottom of /boot/config.txt
  • xinitrc goes into ~/.xinitrc
  • default goes to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

• Add the following to /etc/rc.local:

    if [ -f /boot/xinitrc ]; then
    	ln -fs /boot/xinitrc /home/pi/.xinitrc;
    	su - pi -c 'startx' &
    fi
  

• Put /screen into home folder

• Put in all your appropriate data in js/config.js

• Boot 'er up!

Warnings

• This code sucks. I'm pretty rusty when it comes to JS (or any language at that matter) and have been so busy adding that I haven't even considered refactoring.

• Some things only work for me. Light control is using my own API (I hope to OS that soon, too) and the subway information is currently NYC only.