/Epaper-Dashboard_4.3inch

A epaper dashboard based on Waveshare 4.3 inch epaper display and ESP8266 to display news headlines and weather

Primary LanguageCMIT LicenseMIT

Epaper-Dashboard

A epaper dashboard based on Waveshare 4.3 inch epaper display and ESP8266 to display news headlines and weather

Version 0.1

  • Issues: 1) Poorly RAM managenment, code is poorly wrriten 2) Ramdomdly unable to fetch weather information 3) Most of the Code has no comments

This project received great help from Github user G6EJD https://github.com/G6EJD/ESP32-8266-ePaper-Serial-UART-Wx-Display and arduinojson https://arduinojson.org/v5/example/

The ESP8266 will fetch the weather information and news headlines from internet by accessing metoffice weather api https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint and https://newsapi.org/ api. Then the information will display by the 4.3 inch waveshare eink diaplay.

The outcome of the set up is shown in below overview

The schematic of the wiring is shwon in below overview

Repository Contents

See files in each folder

License Information

MIT