Apologies for crossposting from hardware, I didn’t spot this forum.

Just showing off!
I recently got a small fanless DLP projector, and wanted to try to find something to do with it. So, couple it with a raspberryPi Zero W and Magic Mirror I now have a status display for my bedroom ceiling! The modules are enabled/disabled on a schedule stored in Google Calendar.

The projector is almost silent, though you can just about hear the motor spinning the colour wheel (important because I live in the country and it’s very quiet here).

Apologies for the image quality, my phone is old and doesn’t focus well at all in the dark!
What the projector looks like

What I see (with the soon to be removed clock)

Just showing off!

Description:

This is a weather module that used the MetOffice Datapoint as its data-source for 3 hourly forecasts.
Very much a first release, I’ve squished some bugs, and it works for me, but I’m sure there’s more in there.

Screenshots:

Default View

Compact View

Compact with everything turned on - ugly!

Download:

[card:rummyr/MMM-metoffice-datapoint]

Version 0.1-initial

My first attempt at a module, comments welcome.
Documentation is on GitHub
screenshots are a teeny bit different from the release, but not much.

I guess the bottom line is the question “can nodejs access the data?”

A quick search turned up more than one npm module for reading xls files.

Not sure pulling from an Excel sheet is particularly sensible, probably more sensible to push from Excel on change to a more accessible source.

Sorry, my MM has been turned off for a few months, I’ve just turned it back on today.
I’ll see if the code in git is upto date and push it if not.

Once I’ve done that we can try to work out what’s up with it.

Right, I’ve pushed the latest code.
I see that Swindon is on the list of sites, so hopefully it should work,
If not, looking at
http://datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk/public/data/val/wxfcs/all/json/sitelist?key=… in my browser shows swindon as
{
“elevation”:“131.0”,
“id”:“310150”,
“latitude”:“51.5556”,
“longitude”:“-1.7784”,
“name”:“Swindon”,
“region”:“sw”,
“unitaryAuthArea”:“Swindon”
},
So the site id should be 310150

the region lookup from
http://datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk/public/data/txt/wxfcs/regionalforecast/json/sitelist?key=…
gives
{“@id”:“513”,“@name”:“sw”}
so the regionId should be 513

I got a message saying my MM was out of date, so I pulled the new docker image and now have the 2318 message also.

The top of my CHANGELOG.md reads “## [2.5.0] - 2018-10-01”
Though the “image date” as reported by Portainer is “Created 2019-01-01 15:08:22”

Do we need to wait for bastilimbach?

I guess the bottom line is the question “can nodejs access the data?”

A quick search turned up more than one npm module for reading xls files.

Not sure pulling from an Excel sheet is particularly sensible, probably more sensible to push from Excel on change to a more accessible source.

I’m using an evaluation Module - DLPDLCR2000EVM , about £100 UKP.

Things to note:

• I think it was a limited run, Farnell have been sold out for some time, and digikey’s stock is dropping.
• Resolution is LOW 640x360
• Its designed for a BeagleBone Black, I used a Pi Zero W adapter board from MickMake on tindie, needs soldering though.
• It’s powered off a 5v wall-wart, no battery (though I think MickMake may be working on that)
• no enclosure
• no firmware customization, it boots to a bright splash screen and then you have to fiddle around sending I2C commands.
• Soldered in you have NO GPIO left over for anything at all
• Soldered in the usb ports are inaccesible
• the zero w is somewhat underpowered, currently I’ve got MM running in docker on another Pi while I develop… I think you should be able to run both on the same device
• There’s a very faint blue patch visible when all is black, seems to be a design fault, I returned one, but the second is the same.

All in all not perfect, but I’m used to that.

Apologies for crossposting from hardware, I didn’t spot this forum.

Just showing off!
I recently got a small fanless DLP projector, and wanted to try to find something to do with it. So, couple it with a raspberryPi Zero W and Magic Mirror I now have a status display for my bedroom ceiling! The modules are enabled/disabled on a schedule stored in Google Calendar.

The projector is almost silent, though you can just about hear the motor spinning the colour wheel (important because I live in the country and it’s very quiet here).

Apologies for the image quality, my phone is old and doesn’t focus well at all in the dark!
What the projector looks like

What I see (with the soon to be removed clock)

Just showing off!

Description:

This is a weather module that used the MetOffice Datapoint as its data-source for 3 hourly forecasts.
Very much a first release, I’ve squished some bugs, and it works for me, but I’m sure there’s more in there.

Screenshots:

Default View

Compact View

Compact with everything turned on - ugly!

Download:

[card:rummyr/MMM-metoffice-datapoint]

Version 0.1-initial

My first attempt at a module, comments welcome.
Documentation is on GitHub
screenshots are a teeny bit different from the release, but not much.