I haven't seen anything link this posted so thought I'd share. I have been interested in buying/building a desktop display that shows the basic solar/home/powerwall/grid stats so that anybody in the home can see what's going on without the need for the Tesla app. I also wanted to use an eink display so that I didn't have another backlit screen shining in my house. I came across this project and decided to give it a try:
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I've done programming before but have never used python nor have dealt with interfacing with APIs, so I wanted to start with something that someone already has shown to work and go from there. I already had a raspberry pi 4 in the drawer so only had to order the display. It took a little while to get it working but I like how the display looks.
I made some modifications/additions, namely to pull data from my weather station and display the outside/inside temperatures. It could probably still use some tweeks to the alignment of the text with the icons. I still need to find/build an enclosure for it to make it look pretty. The original programmer made a fancy laser cut enclosure to look like a powerwall (see link above), but I'm not going to be that ambitious.
The only downside right now is that the multi-color eink display takes about 30 s to update and does a lot of flashing colors when it's updating. I have it updating every 5 minutes. If raspberry pi's ever come back in stock at a reasonable price I would probably consider buying a pi zero and a smaller single color eink display to make something a little more compact and low power with closer to real time updates.
GitHub - rog0978/powerwall_display: e-Paper Powerwall stats display
e-Paper Powerwall stats display. Contribute to rog0978/powerwall_display development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
I've done programming before but have never used python nor have dealt with interfacing with APIs, so I wanted to start with something that someone already has shown to work and go from there. I already had a raspberry pi 4 in the drawer so only had to order the display. It took a little while to get it working but I like how the display looks.
I made some modifications/additions, namely to pull data from my weather station and display the outside/inside temperatures. It could probably still use some tweeks to the alignment of the text with the icons. I still need to find/build an enclosure for it to make it look pretty. The original programmer made a fancy laser cut enclosure to look like a powerwall (see link above), but I'm not going to be that ambitious.
The only downside right now is that the multi-color eink display takes about 30 s to update and does a lot of flashing colors when it's updating. I have it updating every 5 minutes. If raspberry pi's ever come back in stock at a reasonable price I would probably consider buying a pi zero and a smaller single color eink display to make something a little more compact and low power with closer to real time updates.
