Raspberry Pi Clock

This project is a simple Raspberry Pi clock app with wheather and IP information.

LCD Panel installation

Please refer to your lcd installation process for more detail. For my panel to work I needed to follow this steps on a fresh Raspbian Lite (buster) image:

git clone https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show.git
chmod -R 755 LCD-show
cd LCD-show/
sudo ./MHS35-show [orientation]

In my case the orientation that works is 180º

Go to lcdwiki for more information: https://github.com/lcdwiki/LCD-show

Select the proper locale/timezone for your country

This is used to display the date in your own language. In my case for Spain I selected es_ES.UTF-8 and Europe/Madrid

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Madrid

Software installation

A fresh copy of Rasbpian Lite is assumed.

sudo apt install freeglut3-dev
git clone https://github.com/hkfuertes/rpi_clock_display
cd rpi_clock_display
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
cp -r otfs /home/pi/.fonts

Now you need to edit the configuration file, to do so, copy the file config.yml.template to config.yml and edit it acordingly:

owm:
  api_key: <openweathermap_api_key>
  language: es
city: Madrid
country: ES
locale: es_ES.UTF-8
date:
  format: '%A %d de %B'

To create a desktop entry:

chmod u+x create.desktop.sh 
./create.desktop.sh
cp Clock.desktop /home/pi/Desktop

For autorun on startup:

chmod u+x create.launcher.sh 
./create.launcher.sh
mkdir -p /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/
echo "@/home/pi/clock.start.sh" >> /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

Information

When running a current.pid file is created with the running pid. If you need to kill it you can do:

cd path/to/rpi_clock_display/folder
kill -9 $(cat current.pid)

TODO

Weahter forecast (free?)
Control brightness with python