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