This project generates a bitmap image displaying relevant daily infomation such as news, weather and a word of the day.
This image is intended for display on a 7.5" e-paper Screen.
More details can be found here: E-Ink Display for Daily News, Weather and More
To run this project, you'll first need to get API keys from the following places:
- newsapi.org
- twitter.com
- darksky.net
- oxforddictionaries.com
Once you have these, create a .env file and add the keys to it in the following format:
;Darksky
darksky_key=your_key
;Twitter
twitter_consumer_key=your_consumer_key
twitter_consumer_secret=your_consumer_secret
twitter_access_token=your_access_token
twitter_access_token_secret=your_token_secret
;Oxford Dictionaries
dictionary_app_id=your_app_id
dictionary_app_key=your_app_key
;News API
news_key=your_key
;Mongo
mongo_uri=mongodb://localhost/paper-pi
This project uses node-canvas which has some of it's own setup steps that can be found here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/canvas
The Node version used for this project is defined in the .nvmrc file.
Building requires MongoDB to be running on the host.
Once everything is in place, run: npm i
If everything installed correctly, you should now be able to run npm run build and have the bmp file generated in the build directory.