icingtomato / paperweather

M5Paper Weather Display - Fetch weather once and hour display and otherwise idle

paperweather

Paperweather is a weather display for the M5Paper.

It uses NOAA weather (US-based) JSON feeds to pull down the latest weather once per hour (configurable) and updates the eink display. While not in use the idea is to automatically kick into ESP deepsleep to conserve battery life. So battery life should be very good (charge once per month or similar).

Done - currently implemented:

• Connect to Wifi network
• Fetch and parse weather via NOAA JSON endpoint
• Display current temperature, weather condition, and forecast as text
• Render an icon based on current condition (e.g. sun, snow, clouds, etc.)
• Render current date/time and location of fetched data in top bar
• Render current internal temperature & humidity sensors values in bottom bar
• Deep sleep based on configurable interval seconds

Todo:

• Benchmark ESP deep sleep

Configuration

Edit Paperweather/config.h to set:

• Wifi username
• Wifi password
• GPS coordinates for location
• Refresh interval

Flashing your M5Paper

The flashing process has been automated through Docker & arduino-cli. This way you don't have to mess around with any configuration / Arduino IDE setup to get things going. Just install docker and run 1 command essentially to flash.

Steps:

1. Install Docker
2. Move onto either flash or drop into docker shell for development to flash as:

Flashing: You can use docker to flash using..

./flash.sh compileupload 

Shell for Development: Or if you want to drop into a shell and compile on the fly using..

./flash.sh shell
compileupload # From shell