dash-board

Personal dashboard running on Raspberry Pi and displaying on Waveshare 7.5" E-ink display

Pieces used in this project

• Raspberry Pi
• Waveshare 7.5" V2 display
• OpenWeatherMap API Key
• Google OAuth credentials with Google calendar enabled

How to

Using node standalone

1. Install dependent packages - npm install
2. Install redis
3. Copy .env from .env.default and populate it with your configurations
4. Create backbone/creds/credentials.json and populate it with credential from Google API Oauth profile
5. Run backbone/fetchAndStore.js with GUI and proceed with Oauth (need to sign in with Google). This step is only required once
6. Set up cronjob to run npm run fetch (or node backbone/fetchAndStore.js) at set intervals. This will ensure redis will get updated calendar information. Calendar events are stored in calendar key
7. Build frontend by running npm run build
8. Run express server by running npm run host (in the background if you want to keep it running)
9. Visit localhost:<YOUR_PORT_FROM_ENV> and check the dashboard in action
10. Install ejs
11. Run ejs refresh -i 300 rpi-7in5-v2 "http://localhost:8000" (recommend using screen to run ejs in the background)

Using Docker

1. Run docker compose up -d
2. Set up cronjob to periodically run npm run fetch as mentioned earlier
3. Run ejs refresh -i 300 rpi-7in5-v2 "http://localhost:8000 (recommend using screen to run ejs in the background)

Architecture