On 19/09/2023 05:19, Jeremy David wrote:
That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for Mark! Would you happen
to have insight or a project build you may have followed?
On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 3:08:00 PM UTC-5 Mark Fraser wrote:
I used an LCD screen and made this
https://www.printables.com/model/499066-hanging-case-for-waveshare-8-display
<https://www.printables.com/model/499066-hanging-case-for-waveshare-8-display>
On Mon, 18 Sept 2023, 18:30 Jeremy David, <[email protected]> wrote:
I moved into a new home a few months ago and have been wanting
to build my own weather station with a RPi and route it
wirelessly to display on another RPi with an LCD or epaper
screen of sorts in my kitchen. I believe I have gotten away from
the idea of building my own weather station because I was
wanting to power it with PoE, but it looks like the HAT that
gives that functionality might not work the best in hotter
operating temps on my roof.
So I think I have settled on getting either a Tempest or an
Ecowitt and just route the data to Weewx on a RPi or Arduino
with a screen attached. However, and maybe I am just blind, but
I can't seem to find a project build on making a display screen
that could project the data, would someone happen to have any
links to one? I swear I found one weeks ago when I was looking
for something else and can't find it again. I have seen ones
that just run Raspbian and have a browser up with Weewx or
running an Android app on an old tablet, but was hoping for
something more plug in and start up for some of the less tech
savvy people in my house.
I'm thinking this should be possible, but maybe I'm overestimating?
Thank you in advance!
You need to have the Belchertown skin and the mqtt extensions installed
on the Raspberry Pi that is running your weather station.
On another Raspberry Pi I installed Raspberry Pi OS, created a file in
.config/autostart called kiosk.desktop which contained:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=conky
Exec=/home/<username>/kiosk.sh
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
In the home directory, I created the kiosk.sh file which contained:
#!/bin/bash
# Run this script in display 0 - the monitor
export DISPLAY=:0
# Disable xset blanking.
xset s noblank
xset s off
# Hide the mouse from the display
unclutter &
# If Chrome crashes (usually due to rebooting), clear the crash flag so
we don't have the annoying warning bar
sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"exited_cleanly":true/'
/home/<username>/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences
sed -i 's/"exit_type":"Crashed"/"exit_type":"Normal"/'
/home/<username>/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences
# Run Chromium and open tabs
/usr/bin/chromium-browser --kiosk --window-position=0,0 <kiosk website> &
# Start the kiosk loop. This keystroke changes the Chromium tab
# To have just anti-idle, use this line instead:
xdotool keydown ctrl; xdotool keyup ctrl;
# Otherwise, the ctrl+Tab is designed to switch tabs in Chrome
In both files, replace <username> with your username and <kiosk website>
with the URL that points to the Kiosk page in Belchertown.
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