/kindle-weather

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

kindle-weather

Kindle weather display app that doesn't require a server.

Based off of Matthew Petroff's weather display https://mpetroff.net/2012/09/kindle-weather-display/

Photos

screenshot picture

Requirements

Requires an API key from https://developer.forecast.io/

Only tested on kindle touch (k5) other kindles may work, let me know.

How it works

  1. Fetches data from forecast.io
  2. Draws font image with draw2d a vector golang drawing lib * We take advantage of a custom made icon font to render the icons smoothly.
  3. Removes the transparent background from that image
  4. Use pngcrush to set the bit depth to 4
  5. Wipe and display the image with eips