After some basic research, I found the ESP-32 LilyGo E-Paper screen<\/a> to be a good solution. It seemed like the smallest possible screen that could fit all the weather related stats. An open source project (detailed instructions here<\/a>) for gathering the weather data from OpenWeather APIs and drawing them on the e-paper screen already existed, I just had to tweak a few things related to the location, aggregate rain data etc that I wanted to customize for myself. I was able to get it up and running in a matter of a couple of hours. The battery life turned out to be pretty good as well, about 40 days on a full charge. I was hoping it would be higher though. I could tweak it to obtain weather data from the internet just twice a day or so, its not like the weather in the bay area changes dramatically in the span of a few hours. That should help considerably. But for now, I am quite satisfied with it.<\/p>\r\n Weather dashboards are a dime a dozen but I have been looking for one that is e-paper based primarily to serve 2 purposes: Battery Life: E-paper based screens are not consuming power when they are displaying information, only when they need to reach out to the internet to obtain it. Crisp Display: E-paper screens can … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"LilyGo](\"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LilyGo-weather-300x225.jpg\")
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