e-ink dashboard for Signal K

Status: in testing

This project provides a dashboard view to telemetry from Signal K to be displayed on an e-ink screen connected to a Raspberry Pi. Different dashboards can be viewed based on ship's navigation.state. The signalk-autostate plugin can be used to automatically update navigation.state based on vessel telemetry.

Eventually this might replace more traditional marine display units on a Signal K enabled vessel.

The project is inspired on the inkstate weather display.

Requirements

Raspberry Pi (tested with 3B+ and Zero W)
Python 3
Working installation of Signal K
WaveShare 4.2inch e-paper module

Setup

Connect the e-paper module to your Raspberry Pi and enable the SPI interface
Clone this repository
Install dependencies from requirements.pip
Set up fonts you want to use to the assets folder
Edit config.py to your liking
Copy the systemd unit file to /lib/systemd/system and start it

TODO

Test with more data providers/conversions
Design casing for the display and Raspberry Pi
(maybe) test outdoor usage