Displays programmatic scenes such as a clock and weather notification board, or Conway's Game of Life. A tiny clock and weather notification board for the morning. Uses hzeller's rpi-rgb-led-matrix code for driving the board.
Required packages:
pip install Pillow requests
On a brand new Pi running Raspbian Lite:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip libjpeg-dev
pip install Pillow requests
cd matrix
make build-python PYTHON=$(which python3)
sudo make install-python PYTHON=$(which python3)
Edit the file settings.ini with your OpenWeatherMap API key and the city code for your location.
[weather]
api_key = YOUR_API_KEY
city_id = YOUR_CITY_ID
[time]
start_hr = 7
start_min = 30
end_hr = 22
end_min = 0
sudo ./weatherclock.py
Weather effects!
Like this:
