Inykcal is a software written in python for selected E-Paper displays. It converts these displays into useful information dashboards. It's open-source, free for personal use, fully modular and user-friendly. Despite all this, Inkycal can run well even on the Raspberry Pi Zero. Oh, and it's open for third-party modules! Hooray!
1. Flash Raspberry Pi OS according to the [instructions](https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/). Leave the SD card plugged in your computer.
2. Create and download `settings.json` file for Inkycal from the [WEB-UI](https://aceisace.eu.pythonanywhere.com/inkycal-config-v2-0-0)
4. Download the `ssh` text file from the [WEB-UI](https://aceisace.eu.pythonanywhere.com/create_ssh)
5. Create and download a WiFi-configuration file (`wpa_supplicant.conf`) from the [WEB-UI](https://aceisace.eu.pythonanywhere.com/setup_wifi)
6. Copy these three downloaded files to the flashed microSD card. On Windows, this is the only visible directory on the SD card. On Linux, copy these files to `/boot`
7. Eject the microSD card from your computer now, insert it in the Raspberry Pi and power the Raspberry Pi.
8. Once the green LED has stopped blinking after ~3 minutes, use an SSH client to connect to the Raspberry Pi. On Windows, you can use PUTTY but you can also use an SSH App
on your smartphone. Use the address: `raspberrypi.local` with `pi` as the username and `raspberry` as the password.
sudo sed -i s/#dtparam=spi=on/dtparam=spi=on/ /boot/config.txt
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
```
These commands expand the filesystem, enable SPI and setup the correct timezone on the Raspberry Pi. When running the last command, please select the continent you live in, press enter and then select the capital of the country you live in. Lastly, press enter.
10. Change the passowrd for the user pi by entering `passwd` in the Terminal, enter your current password, hit enter, then type your new password and press enter. Please note you will have to remember this password to access your Raspberry Pi.
11. Follow the steps in `Installation` (see below) on how to install Inkycal.
Yes, it's that simple! The above command runs the user-friendly installer. You can install, update and uninstall inkycal with ease. What's more is that it also allows starting Inkycal at every boot!
Should the installer fail, please open a issue or report the problem in Discord. In the meantime, you can try the [Manual Installation](https://github.com/aceisace/Inkycal/wiki/Manual-installation)
All sorts of contributions are most welcome and appreciated. To start contributing, please follow the [Contribution Guidelines](https://github.com/aceisace/Inkycal/blob/development/CONTRIBUTING.md).
The average response time for issues, PRs and emails is usually 24 hours. In some cases, it might be longer. If you want to have some faster responses, please use Discord (link below).
In order to speed up development, most development tasks (apart from the actual rending to E-Ink display) can be developed on more powerful machines and in richer environments than running this on a Pi zero. In case of Windows PC the most convenient way is to use VS Code Remote development in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), please follow [Tutorial](https://code.visualstudio.com/remote-tutorials/wsl/getting-started).
