EK_pyportal
What is EK_pyportal?
Purpose
Display essential personal dashboard information
Contributors
Software Dependencies
BOM
Pinouts
Information Sources
- https://learn.adafruit.com/pyportal-weather-station/overview
- https://www.devdungeon.com/content/pyportal-circuitpy-tutorial-adabox-011#disqus_thread
- https://learn.adafruit.com/search?q=pyportal
- https://learn.adafruit.com/pyportal-mqtt-sensor-node-control-pad-home-assistant/overview
- https://fontforge.org/en-US/downloads/windows-dl/
Issues
Questions
- 080920: why do you have to append current directory to syspath to import a local file?
- 080920: why does get_local_time() work without knowing location?
- 080920: how do you know a internet connection is available? when does it get initialized?
- 080920: why do we import the same libs in an imported lib?
- 080920: why query (update) network time server every hour? Why would we lose time? And if, what interval is really needed to address that problem?
Learnings
Revisions
- 080920: Copied Adafruit source as starting point
- 081920: Removed location information being displayed on-screen
Feature Requests
- 080920: Customize weather_background.bmp
Ideas
- Bitcoin price
- Sports scores
- turn hue lights on and off
- weather forecast
- word of the day
- status-light trigger
- people I need to talk to