E-Ink Paper Display - Personal calendar

Source codes for E-Ink display personal calendar project.

Features

Display following data to E-Ink Paper display with Raspberry Pi.

• Date display
• Japan, Garbage collection calendar
• Weather Info (Today/Tomorrow/3 hours)
• Google Calendar events

Requirements

Hard ware

• Raspberry Pi
• E-Ink Display

Software

• This codes
• OpenWeatherMap API settings
• Google Calendar API settings

Setup

API keys setting

Need to get API keys for OpenWheatherMap (OWM) and Google Calendar.

OWM provides Key strings. Google Calendar provides credential JSON file.

Update setting files

Use venv for install python packages

python -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Put setting file

cp src/setting.default.py src/setting.py
vi src/setting.py

and update following settings

# - Open Weather setting -----
LAT = 35.6896342
LON = 139.6921007
OWM_KEY = 'API Key for OpenWeatherMap One Call API'

# - Gargage Calender setting -----
# DayOfWeek ==> 0: Mon, 1:Tue, 2:Wed, 3:Thu, 4:Fri, 5:Sat, 6:Sun
# [DayOfWeek, DayOfWeek, ...]
# [(Nth, DayOfWeek), (Nth, DayOfWeek), ...]
gcDict = { }

# - Google Calender setting -----
calenderIds = ['alice@gmail.com', 'bob@gmail.com']
gcaljson = 'googlecalender.json'

Set path to Google Calender credential json file to gcaljson setting.

Run

For check render image, just run

python ~/epd/src/epd-cal-img.py

Script export .bmp file to project root. You can check it by image viewer.

To use with E-Ink Display and Raspberry Pi, setup cron.

python ~/epd/src/epd-calendar.py

Script display image to EPD.

Site

https://hyogo.dev/works/epd