A small project to display data to my e-ink display connected to my Raspberry Pi 3.

Goal: Display the weather, a simple chart and possibly today's calendar events on the display.

E-Paper Waveshare instructions: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7.5inch_e-Paper_HAT

Hardware

• Waveshare 7.5" e-ink display
• Raspberry Pi 3

Python 3 Libraries

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3-pip sudo apt-get install python3-pil sudo apt-get install python3-numpy sudo pip3 install RPi.GPIO sudo pip3 install spidev

Usage

Start display and run process in the background

1. Activate virtualenv if used
2. nohup python3 client.py &

Dev testing

Running python3 client.py on dev machine will open an image of the drawing for debugging.