Pi-Weather

Weather Station built for Raspberry Pi Zero with a 2.7" PaPiRus E-Ink Display

How to install

1. First install requirements:

#PaPiRus
curl -sSL https://pisupp.ly/papiruscode | sudo bash

#Weather API
sudo python3 -m pip install weather_au

More info on PaPiRus manual setup can be found on their repository.

2. Modify config.json with your location

$EDITOR config.json

3. Run the python script

python3 pi_weather.py

4. You should get a result similar to this:

5. Install the systemd service to start on boot

sudo cp piweather.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable pipweather.service

Features

• Uses BOM API / Scraping (via weather_au pip module)
• Grabs a random fact each rotation

Future Work

Replace PaPirusComposite with something else, so that we can Update specific sections when items change

Debugging

BOM API Info:

• https://api.weather.bom.gov.au/v1/locations?search=3000
• https://api.weather.bom.gov.au/v1/locations/$ID/forecasts/daily