WeatherPi

A set of scripts and web hackery meant to show the current time and weather on a touchscreen-enabled Raspberry Pi.

Installation hints

• I used a 4dPi 3.5 inch screen for mine. Getting that set up is just a matter of following 4dPi's installation instructions.
• The touchscreen wasn't working for me on boot, so I disabled the ar1020-i2c module in /etc/modules-load.d and enabled 4dpi_touch in the same file.
• To hide the pointer and start the client at boot, I added two lines to ~pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart:
  • unclutter -idle 0
  • /home/pi/projects/weatherpi/client/weatherpi-widget.py http://www.wirelesscouch.net/weatherpi/
• To prevent the screen from blanking, I added the following to the [SeatDefaults] section of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:
  • xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms

Some useful packages for making everything work:

• apt-get install gir1.2-webkit-3.0
• apt-get install matchbox-keyboard
• apt-get install unclutter

Also, don't forget to fix your timezone!

• dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

And if you are using the official 7 inch touchscreen display, you might want to change the brightness. This is a nice setting on mine:

• echo 128 > /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness