/piholedisplay

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Pihole Display

Pi Hole stats

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi 3B+ with pihole
  • Waveshare 2.13 inch ePaper display model B (3 colors: black, white and red)

Installation

Waveshare display drivers

  • Install the libraries mentioned here.

  • Enable spi, i2c and edit the modules config file as given here

  • [Optional] Download demo code from here and run it to make sure everything is working

  • also install the requests library and dotmap libraries (needs pip to be installed)

    sudo pip install requests
pip3 install dotmap

Final steps

  • If you downloaded the demo code, just place the stats.py inside the 2.13inch_e-Paper_HAT-code/raspberrypi/python folder
  • If you didnot download the demo code, copy the python folder from this repo into your pi folder.
  • run the stats.py script using 
    ./start-pihole-stat.sh

Running on startup

  • Lastly we just want to make this run at boot. This can be done in different ways:

a: Using rc.local:

  • This can be done by editing /etc/rc.local
  • Open rc.local: sudo nano /etc/rc.local
  • Add /home/pi/piholedisplay/start-pihole-stat.sh & before exit 0. Editing rc.local
  • Then save and you can reboot to test it out.

b: As a service:

  • Another option is to run it as a service: 
    sudo cp pihole-stats.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable pihole-stats.service