Raspberry Pi Clock & Weather Display on a TFT-3.5" Screen

RE: Raspberry Pi Clock & Weather Display on a TFT-3.5" Screen

tehmessiah75 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 06:57:23 GMT

Update:
You cannot use the Lite (no GUI) OS.
The new raspberry pi imager now creates a user that isn't pi

After some investigation I tracked it down to:
Line 65 of /home/<USERNAME>/rpi_clock/bin/rpi_clock_parameters.py home = "/home/pi"
I changed it to: home = "/home/<MyUserName>"

After this I received the error about using SSH which is when I realized I needed an OS with a desktop environment.
After upgrading OS Lite to XFCE desktop (Cause its the lightest weight OS) it still doesn't work.

RE: Raspberry Pi Clock & Weather Display on a TFT-3.5" Screen

tehmessiah75 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 04:28:10 GMT

this looks great but the instructions are lacking.

I've fumbled my way through it and it doesn't work, yet.

its a RPi 2 and its running my Pi-Hole. I attached the screen ages ago but its pretty much headless (Lite OS terminal only)

since most of it was already setup and configured all I had to do was edit the settings for the clock but after reboot it just displayed terminal.

Please help because this is exactly what I wanted the display for.

RE: Raspberry Pi Clock & Weather Display on a TFT-3.5" Screen

DAB — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:50:02 GMT

Nice post.

DAB