{"id":3366,"date":"2022-10-19T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2022-11-15T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T06:45:48","slug":"inkplate-weather-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"Inkplate Weather Display"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A little while ago I ordered an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdsupply.com\/soldered\/inkplate-10\">Inkplate 10<\/a>, which is a project pairing old Kindle E-Paper displays with ESP32 microcontrollers. Mine arrived a bit ago, and I&#8217;ve been looking for a good project to use it on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently we&#8217;ve had some wildfires in the area that have significantly impacted air quality in our area. I have some air quality sensors here at the house, and all the data is logged, but I thought that this display would make a good way to present this data along with the time and some other data in the living room without having to check with my monitoring system.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9740-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The device was programmed using MicroPython, which connects to the wifi, pulls a json file from a local web server with all the data to present, and then handles all the drawing routines to display the info on the panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also interesting to experiment with partial refresh, which is a feature these E-Paper panels support. Partial refresh allows for updating only changed portions of the display without doing a full refresh of the panel. A full refresh involves some blinking between black and white and would be distracting every minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I ordered an Inkplate 10, which is a project pairing old Kindle E-Paper displays with ESP32 microcontrollers. Mine arrived a bit ago, and I&#8217;ve been looking for a good project to use it on. Recently we&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=3366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-projects","category-technology","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}