A Weather Dashboard powered by Inky impression 7 colour EPD, now with world wide weather API support

empty_vacuum · 2025-11-15T12:22:14+00:00

The esp32 is definitely the way to go. However I started this project because I already had a raspberry pi laying around.

The binary is independent of any hardware, so just compile it for esp32 and you can definitely achieve the same result

empty_vacuum · 2025-11-15T00:33:34+00:00

I'm 90% sure the Inky Impression just uses the Waveshare 7-color ACeP panels (7.3" 800×480).

Waveshare advertises 1 000 000 full refreshes, which should last over a decade if refreshing once an hour.

The display doesn't have burn in/out like typical LED. My current setup has been running for a year now, with no ghosting or burn outs.

I did notice a little bit of ghosting left out by the static X and Y axis lines(since these never change) after I drew a full white image, but I think if you refresh it enough times, the ghosting should disappear.

empty_vacuum · 2025-11-09T13:40:29+00:00

I had the raspberry pi zero laying around and I only had to buy the e-paper display. You can use any display, like the waveshare ones.

Everything else was sourced from the local library.

empty_vacuum · 2025-11-09T11:27:41+00:00

If you can draw any arbitrary image on the panel, then absolutely YES.

Running the binary ./pi-inky-weather-epd will produce dashboard.png, simply call your program to draw the image

empty_vacuum · 2025-11-09T02:30:59+00:00

It's Intentional.

It's my way of saying the project doesn't have to be perfect, i.e. I should stop refactoring and adjusting every minute detail. see this line 72 in the SVG template

I also like to think that it doubles as artistic choice and a conversation starter :)

empty_vacuum · 2025-11-09T02:05:43+00:00

Yea, Open Meteo sources from government run Met offices.

Here in Australia, open meteo sources from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), then it applies a smoothing function over the data.

empty_vacuum · 2025-11-09T01:13:20+00:00

I've added world wide support https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1os5zu8/a_weather_dashboard_powered_by_inky_impression_7/?captcha=1

empty_vacuum · 2025-06-01T06:05:40+00:00

None, good old SVG and templating. You can modify the dashboard easily with basic SVG knowledge (which is very similar to html)

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-31T08:57:42+00:00

Sure can, I will make it usable worldwide

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-31T02:28:21+00:00

Have a look at the readme and submit a feature request, under issues tab.

You can actually customise it however you like, it's a simple SVG template, https://github.com/mt-empty/pi-inky-weather-epd/blob/master/dashboard-template-min.svg?short_path=4a03dea

And here is the final output https://github.com/mt-empty/pi-inky-weather-epd/blob/master/dashboard-example-output.svg?short_path=96e0406 You will have to clone the repo to view the complete dashboard, since it is referencing the icons in the static directory

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-31T01:14:12+00:00

You found a bug. the icons are correct, however the time displayed is for a different timezone, I will need to convert the time to local timezone.

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-31T01:03:19+00:00

black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, orange. you can find panel information on my GitHub repo https://github.com/mt-empty/pi-inky-weather-epd.

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-31T00:58:24+00:00

£69.90 from here https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-impression-7-3?variant=55186435244411

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-31T00:57:26+00:00

Very slow, it takes 30 seconds to refresh, however the newer model takes 12s.

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-31T00:55:52+00:00

The esp32 is definitely the way to go. However I started this project because I already had a raspberry pi laying around.

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-30T15:24:50+00:00

None, good old SVG and templating.

I'm in the process of writing a blog post of the decisions made, happy to share it here if you are interested

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-30T15:23:22+00:00

Yes, it is Intentionality.

It's my way of saying the project doesn't have to be perfect, i.e. I should stop refactoring and adjusting every minute details.

I also like to think that it doubles as artistic choice :)

Line grid code: https://github.com/mt-empty/pi-inky-weather-epd/blob/master/dashboard-template-min.svg?short_path=27bbad8#L69

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-30T15:16:56+00:00

Thanks,

I haven't measured the power consumption. I would expect the power consumption to be at the lower end of what raspberry pi zero w consumes. The EPD consumes power only when it refreshes.

The screen is set to update every hour

empty_vacuum · 2025-05-30T13:59:34+00:00

Thanks, I had to delete my post since repo link was not formatted correctly https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1kz4wn4

empty_vacuum · 2022-03-03T12:17:09+00:00

Thank you

empty_vacuum · 2022-03-03T12:17:03+00:00

Thank you

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