mattgrayyes/epic

DSCOVR:EPIC image viewer for Raspberry Pi with Pimoroni 2.1" Hyperpixel Round display.

epic's Issues

Setup issues

Hey, I'm setting up an epic viewer, and thought I'd list some issues I ran into (and hopefully some solutions to those issues which I'll add on the thread).

brightness.sh calls a command line utility called gpio which doesn't exist on my pi with the latest raspbian. The instructions don't list where to get that - the wiringpi project seems to be the one, but that also says it's bundled with raspbian and seems not to be. Maybe these calls could be replaced by calls to raspi-gpio, which does seem to be included.

The requirements.txt specifies pygame 1.9.4.post1, a version which seems to no longer be in the repositories. I tried 2.3.0, the current latest version, which is refusing to load the loading.jpg file with the error "File is not a Windows BMP file" - which is unexpected. I also tried to use 1.9.6, it ends up saying that there's no matching distribution found.

I'll keep digging in and post what I find.

`first_run` never set False

In epic.py first_run is set to True at beginning and then never set to False so the api fetch is always done every 20 seconds not every 120 minutes.

feat: Update for Debian Bullseye or Bookworm

This requires Debian Buster, which will be End-of-Life'd in 3 months (June 30, 2024).

This should be updated to confirm support for Debian Bullseye or Bookworm.

Autorun halts and goes back to desktop after a few minutes

Bullseye with Matt's setup. I am a Linux noob and trying to build this for my daughter (post-grad student at MIT) for a Christmas present. I have tried various ways to autorun the .sh script. I tried the exact way that the OP did, I did the system.d method too. I can't seem to get it to keep running.