Air Raid Monitor for Raspberry Pi

This device shows the current status of air raid sirens in Ukraine. The data is pulled every 10 seconds from https://sirens.in.ua/

Version of this widget for other platforms:

• Windows
• Linux
• macOS

Bill of materials

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• Waveshare eInk 2.13
• microSD
• micro-usb cable for power

Installation

1. Turn on SPI via sudo raspi-config

   Interfacing Options -> SPI
   

2. Install dependencies

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-pil python3-numpy python3-lxml git 
   pip3 install RPi.GPIO spidev svglib
   git clone https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git ~/e-Paper
   pip3 install ~/e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python/
   

3. Clone Air-raid Monitor

   git clone https://github.com/dr-mod/air-raid-monitor.git ~/air-raid-monitor
   

4. Run the application

   python3 ~/air-raid-monitor/main.py
   

Autostart

1. sudo apt-get install screen
2. sudo nano /etc/rc.local
3. Add the line number 4 before exit 0
4. su - pi -c "/usr/bin/screen -dm sh -c '/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/air-raid-monitor/main.py'"