InkyDash

A dashboard to display the following in a rotating manner:

• Current COVID-19 hospitalizations and positive tests for a state
• Top 3 Hacker News Stories and their points
• Current Air Quality and weather conditions from a personal monitor
• Today's weather forecast from NOAA

Equipment Needed

1. Rasperry Pi - Any newer one will do
2. InkyPhat
3. Internet access

Installation

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/hubertron/inkydash
2. Install requirements pip3 install -r requirements.txt
3. Configure locations in locations.yaml
4. Remove or comment out currentCondtions function if you do not have your own personal station running
5. Run with python3 main.py
6. Start on boot with systemd service:

[Unit]
Description = Display Feeds on eInk
After = network.target

[Service]
User=pi
ExecStart = /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/inkydash/main.py
Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target

7. Final setup sudo systemctl daemon-reload, sudo systemctl enable eink.service, and sudo systemctl start eink.service

Wishlist

• Add uptime monitoring func to tell me if any of my sites are down
• Add intergration to Outlook to notify me of upcoming meeting
• Add traffic service to tell me if commute time is longer than expected (if COVID ever ends)
• Maybe quote of the day or breaking news?