What

wamotd (Weather And Message Of The Day) is a Python service intended to run on a Raspberry Pi with an Adafruit e-Ink display shield attached, in order to display a daily weather forecast alongside a short 'message of the day'. The message of the day can be set manually via a small web application.

Local development

Make a virtualenv:

make venv

Activate it:

. .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-dev.txt

Type checking & formatting

make check

Running it locally

make run-local
open http://localhost:8888

Deployment to Raspberry Pi

Preparing the Raspberry Pi

The target Raspberry Pi must have Python and pip installed already (version 3.9.2). You'll also need a user who you can use to SSH to it, and who has sudo access.

Deploying to the Raspberry Pi

Edit the deployuser and deployto variables in the Makefile to match your target host & user (these could be extracted into a file, but I'm lazy and haven't).

Then:

make deploy

Viewing logs

journalctl --unit=wamotd@$USER.service --since=yesterday

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