Air Raid Monitor for Raspberry Pi

This device shows the current status of air raid sirens in Ukraine.

Modified version that pulls data using alerts.in.ua API.

Bill of materials

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• Waveshare eInk 2.13 v3
• microSD
• micro-usb cable for power

Installation

1. Turn on SPI via sudo raspi-config

   Interfacing Options -> SPI
   

2. Install dependencies

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-pil python3-numpy python3-lxml git 
   pip3 install RPi.GPIO spidev svglib
   git clone https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git ~/e-Paper
   pip3 install ~/e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python/
   

3. Clone Air-raid Monitor

   git clone https://github.com/alerts-ua/air-raid-monitor.git ~/air-raid-monitor
   

4. Run the application

   python3 ~/air-raid-monitor/main.py
   

Install as a service

Run the following command to install the service:

   sudo ./install.sh

To start/restart/stop the service:

   sudo systemctl start air-raid-monitor
   sudo systemctl restart air-raid-monitor
   sudo systemctl stop air-raid-monitor