LED Weather Station

LED Matrix

Beautiful LED Matrix to display the weather! Powered by the Raspberry Pi and Adafruit RGB Matrix Hat.

Hardware

  1. Raspberry Pi with internet connection
  2. Adafruit RGB Matrix Hat
  3. LED Matrix
  4. Follow setup instructions here: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-rgb-matrix-plus-real-time-clock-hat-for-raspberry-pi

Software

  1. Sign up for API key at http://openweathermap.org/api
  2. Clone this repo to RPi and navigate to the directory
  3. Install required Python packages 
      $ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-imaging
  $ pip install schedule
  4. Edit weatherstation.py and enter your location and API key
  5. Run weatherstation.py with $ python weatherstation.py &

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