rpi_dashboard

Raspberry PI Dashboard

A Dashboard for Raspberry PI Module 3 with the Raspberry 7" Touch Screen

Features

• Time
• Date
• Reads Number of local Media Files on MiniDLNA (Music/Video)
• Gets local Weather and forecast from OpenWeather
• Checks to see if Owner is home (Pings mobile phone)
• Gets Owner's Calendar Information from Office365
• Changes Screen colour and display brightness dependant on Time of Daytime
• Interacts with Local Z-Wave Setup to have a small selection of actions

Data Storage

• Saves data to JSON files so does not flood online services, called data_*.txt
• Saves images to icon_*.png
• Saves a backup of current data/images which are used incase of data update failure
• Config file eClock.cfg, this is created using setup.py

System Setup

• Register with OpenWeatherMap
• Install system requirements

sudo apt-get install python-pygame python-pil python-imaging-tk

• Install Python requirements

sudo pip install requests
sudo pip install pycrypto

• Install O365 Python Library, using custom version from Github (topcats/python-o365)
• Install zWaveAPI Python Library, using custom version from Github (topcats/raspberry-zwave-python)
• Run setup.py to create config file
• Read Backlight Setup manual
• Read Auto run manual