Pi Home Screen

Raspberry Pi Home Screen

scala - scalafx - javafx - philips hue - openWeatherMap

Author: Maximilian Bundscherer

Overview

• Control your philips hue light bulbs, scenes and rooms
• Show clock (time and date)
• Show weather info (data from openWeatherMap)
• Dynamic backgrounds included
• Automatic health check (network down) & active error reporting
• Jokes (personalized chuck norris jokes & trump thinks jokes)
• ISS Location Check (set alert on light bulb if iss is over your house)
• Recurring report of your light bulb states to a csv-files
• Video backgrounds (from pexels)
• Random photo backgrounds (from pexels)
• Auto night mode (diashow mode)

Requirements

• Liberica JDK 13.x.x for ARM - don't works with Oracle jdk (no javaFX included) (maybe use custom build with fx)
• (Optional - on target deploy) Raspberry Pi with touchscreen (1024x600 recommend)
• (Optional - ui editor for fxml files) Scene Builder

Let's get started (local run for development)

• (Optional) Edit config (see section below)
• Run with sbt run
• Install ffmpeg
• Install imageMagick

Let's get started (run on target)

• (Optional) Edit config (see section below)
• Generate jar file with sbt generate-jar
• Copy jar-file from ./target/scala-2.12/PiHomeScreen-assembly-X.Y.jar to raspberry
• Run on target with java -jar PiHomeScreen-assembly-X.Y.jar (use jdk from above)
• Install ffmpeg
• Install imageMagick

Config

• Edit config file under ./src/main/resources/application.conf
• Edit philips hue mapping under ./src/main/scala/de/maxbundscherer/pihomescreen/utils/LightConfiguration.scala
• Add philips hue bridge secrets and your openWeatherMap and joke config.