Porter

(See it in action here)

A dashboard meant for raspberry pi + touchscreen to have an at-a-glance view of data for the home.

Features

Upcoming (24 hour) weather, scrollable and inspired by the wonderful design of Weather Line.
Alerts when precipitation is forecast within the hour (à la Dark Sky)
Light control (using my own API... hope to set this up soon)
Nearest Uber-X status
Nearest Car2Go status with toggleable map
NYC subway alerts
"Should I bring my umbrella?" alert
The current time

Prerequisites

This was all built exactly to the spec of the Official Raspberry Pi Display. I'm hardcoding a lot of the resolutions in here just for that, so be warned.

I run it on a RPI2.

WARNING: This really only works well on Wheezy at this point. I'm attempting to get it to work well on Jessie, but so far it's not perfect.

Installation

Update and install requirements:
```
  sudo apt-get update
```

	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

	sudo apt-get install matchbox chromium x11-xserver-utils ttf-mscorefonts-installer xwit sqlite3 libnss3 apache2 xinput

If you're working with Jessie, this is gonna be a bit tougher. To install chromium, follow these instructions, but bear in mind it only works for RPI2.

Edit/replace config files.
- config.txt goes into the bottom of /boot/config.txt
- xinitrc goes into ~/.xinitrc
- default goes to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Add the following to /etc/rc.local:

  if [ -f /boot/xinitrc ]; then
  	ln -fs /boot/xinitrc /home/pi/.xinitrc;
  	su - pi -c 'startx' &
  fi

Put /screen into home folder
Put in all your appropriate data in js/config.js
Boot 'er up!

Warnings

This code sucks. I'm pretty rusty when it comes to JS (or any language at that matter) and have been so busy adding that I haven't even considered refactoring.
Some things only work for me. Light control is using my own API (I hope to OS that soon, too) and the subway information is currently NYC only.

lanewinfield/porter

Porter

Features

Prerequisites

Installation

Warnings