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42 lines
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# Inky Ticker
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An Info display for my Inky pHAT.
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## Description
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This repository provides an info display for an [Inky pHAT](https://pimoroni.com/inkyphat), or a SSD1675 eInk display attached to a Raspberry Pi, to be more specific.
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It displays (as of now) the current weather at a given location based on data provided by the [OpenWeather](https://openweathermap.org/api/one-call-3) API.
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I selected this particular data provider because it has a One-Call API which yields all relevant information with just one API call (hence the name, heh?).
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The use of the API is free so long as one stays below 1,000 requests/day (as of the time writing this).
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You'll need your own API key to use this project.
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## Hardware Required
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I developed this project for my Raspberry Pi Zero (as of me writing this there is only this one revision of the Pi Zero, though there's a version with and without WiFi) with an attached Inky pHAT.
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### Cross-Compiling the project
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Since builds on a Pi Zero can take painfully long, I've moved to cross-compiling this project on my machine.
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You can do that using the [`cross`](https://github.com/cross-rs/cross) tool by running:
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```text
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cross build --target=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --release --bin inky --features inky
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```
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## Running the Simulator
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The project comes with a built-in simulator to allow for quick prototyping.
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To run the simulator, just execute:
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```
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cargo run --release --bin simulator --features simulator
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```
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You will need the SDL2 library for that, though.
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Information on how to install it can be found [here](https://github.com/embedded-graphics/simulator#setup).
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## License
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This project is licensed under the MIT license. For the licensing text, refer to the `LICENSE` file in this repository.
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