Hi all,

Finally my dashboard works great, but obviously all the descriptions are in english and I need to translate all in italian (but it will possible to every language).

I'm starting to evaluate to use a string replace in every single module, like this:

cal_n_m = calendar.month_name[cal_month]
    for r in (("December", "Dicembre"), ("January", "Gennaio"), ("February", "Febbraio"), ("March", "Marzo"), ("April", "Aprile"), ("May", "Maggio"), ("June", "Giugno"), ("July", "Luglio"), ("August", "Agosto"), ("September", "Settembre"), ("October", "Ottobre"), ("November", "Novembre")):
        cal_n_m_it = cal_n_m.replace(*r)
................................
 draw.text((cal_s_x + 60, cal_s_y-65), str(cal_n_m_it) + ' ' + str(cal_year),
              font=font_size(35), fill=color_1)

Where I've replace the month one-to-one from English to Italian.
It doesn't works, but I'm really new in python language so probably I've missed something.
Anyone can help me to generate a function to translate the description?

Thank you.

Hi all,
I've write to you because from Waveshare support haven't found a great answer to know why my display is start to burn these column of pixel.
My refresh rate is every 5 minutes.
The display can be restored? What I've do wrong?

Thanks for your support.

Hi all,

I really like this project and I would like to create one similar but in one form I would like to put some information about the track that my Spotify is playng.
But unfortunately I'm very noob with Raspberry and Python, I hope to found someone that help me with this project.
With Python I've found this code: https://github.com/plamere/spotipy/tree/94e164385e1b64f99e45053c6bdd638770c982e2
that use the official Spotify APIs to found all track information.

The code is something like this:

def current_playback(self, market=None, additional_types=None):
        """ Get information about user's current playback.
            Parameters:
                - market - an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
                - additional_types - `episode` to get podcast track information
        """
        return self._get("me/player", market=market, additional_types=additional_types)

Someone can help me to modify the form, the webserver and so on?

Thanks in advance!

Hi @duxenmx!

Can I please ask help for a new project?
Is based on your code but without a server, just spotify service and a DHT22 sensor.
I've trying to refresh the screen when I change the spotify song but I've some serious problem with the get_spot_info() because it write always the same info and it doesn't change. Can I send you my code for a quick review please?
I'm stuck up over 2 weeks, I really don't know how to exit.
I hope in your help... 😢

Hi buddy,

the dashboard is working absolutly fine the last days. It's an amazing project.
I was thinking if you could add an api for a picture of a day or something like that.
Maybe this one from wikipedia would be great:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day

Let me know, if i can help you somehow. Sheers and have a good day

Hi Adrian,

can you help with this problem?
After the installation i try to start the dashboard.py with cmd:

python3 dashboard.py

It seems that the meetings section throw an error like following:

Gret project! I have the screen up and running, installed the dependencies and run the main program.

It gives the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/cal/software/E_ink_dashboard/dashboard.py", line 54, in <module>
    with open(os.path.join(creddir, 'dash_id.json'), "r") as rdash_id:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/cal/software/E_ink_dashboard/credentials/dash_id.json'

So there needs to be a JSON with that name, but what needs to be in it exactly?

Hi @duxenmx !
I hope you're well!

I'm thinking to made another project to view only the spotify information so I need to try to refresh the screen every time that the song change.
I know that is not safe for the hardware but I want to try to see what happen.
I don't know how to handle the epd.sleep (and other write and sleep commands...) using a event handler (change the value of "track" variable).
Can you help me with this please?

Thank you!

Hi all!
I'm tryng to start up the server. Where I read "your domain" in the instruction, I write local Ip (192.168.x.x) right? Or the public IP? Sorry but I don't know how to continue because when I write the local IP of the raspberry in the browser I see only the standard "NGINX presentation page" and nothing else. If I write my public IP address I see my modem router configuration page. Can someone help me?

Hi mate,

thx for your great work. I really try to get it working for days now.

Please can you help me?

I did all the steps to run the server.
This what i got as an error msg:

Dashenv.service - Gunicorn instance to serve Dashenv
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/Dashenv.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-12-08 12:32:38 CET; 17s ago
Process: 1042 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/gunicorn --workers 3 --bind unix:Dashenv.sock -m 007 wsgi:app (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1042 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Dez 08 12:32:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Gunicorn instance to serve Dashenv.
Dez 08 12:32:33 raspberrypi gunicorn[1042]: [2020-12-08 12:32:33 +0000] [1042] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 19.10.0
Dez 08 12:32:33 raspberrypi gunicorn[1042]: [2020-12-08 12:32:33 +0000] [1042] [ERROR] Retrying in 1 second.
Dez 08 12:32:34 raspberrypi gunicorn[1042]: [2020-12-08 12:32:34 +0000] [1042] [ERROR] Retrying in 1 second.
Dez 08 12:32:35 raspberrypi gunicorn[1042]: [2020-12-08 12:32:35 +0000] [1042] [ERROR] Retrying in 1 second.
Dez 08 12:32:36 raspberrypi gunicorn[1042]: [2020-12-08 12:32:36 +0000] [1042] [ERROR] Retrying in 1 second.
Dez 08 12:32:37 raspberrypi gunicorn[1042]: [2020-12-08 12:32:37 +0000] [1042] [ERROR] Retrying in 1 second.
Dez 08 12:32:38 raspberrypi gunicorn[1042]: [2020-12-08 12:32:38 +0000] [1042] [ERROR] Can't connect to Dashenv.sock
Dez 08 12:32:38 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Dashenv.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dez 08 12:32:38 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Dashenv.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

After installing Gunicorn i could find the Gunivcron file in the directory you named. So placed the default value to it:

GNU nano 3.2 /etc/systemd/system/Dashenv.service

[Unit]
Description=Gunicorn instance to serve Dashenv
After=network.target

[Service]
User=pi
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/E_ink_dashboard/www
Environment="PATH=/home/pi/E_ink_dashboard/www/Dashenv/bin"
ExecStart=gunicorn --workers 3 --bind unix:Dashenv.sock -m 007 wsgi:app

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Do you have an idea what im doing wrong?