Pixelbot

A retro-themed display to show ambient information, like the weather, calendar events, and more.

Installation

Hardware

1. Raspberry Pi (tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, but should work on any model)
2. 7" touchscreen display (1024x600), e.g.
   • 7" HDMI LCD
   • 7" DSI LCD
   • Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen Display You can use a different display, but you will need to adjust the resolution in the code.

From source

Should work with Raspberry Pi OS, Debian bookworm, Ubuntu 22.04, and other Debian-based distributions.

1. Prepare the Raspberry Pi:
   • Install the latest Raspberry Pi OS (Bullseye) with desktop.
   • Enable SSH and VNC in the Raspberry Pi configuration.
   • Update the system:

     sudo apt update
     sudo apt upgrade
     

   • Install the necessary dependencies:

     sudo apt install \
       python3-wxpython \
       python3-babel \
       python3-requests \
       python3-icalendar
     

   • Contrary to established practice, we don't use a virtual environment here as some pre-compiled wheels are not available for aarch64 and we don't want to compile them on the Raspberry Pi.
2. Clone the repository
3. Run python3 -m pixelbot --fullscreen to start the application.

Widgets

Pixelbot comes with a few widgets out of the box. You can add more by creating a new widget in the widgets directory.

Clock

Shows the current time.

Calendar

Shows the next event in your calendar.