So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news
a day ago
- Author wanted to reduce house temperature and track indoor climate, also reduce algorithm-based content consumption, and follow astronomical events and air quality.
- Used a LILYGO T5 e-paper module with ESP32 to build a static display for weather, news, AQI, etc.
- Iterated on UI layout from unstructured text to a 2x3 grid, then merged cells and switched fonts to Montserrat for better fit.
- Set up an HTTP server in Clojure to serve JSON data to the ESP32 over WiFi, but encountered issues with ESP32 sleep/wake and fetch failure handling.
- Planned future features include indoor air quality sensor, TODO/reading lists, and change detection to skip refresh if data unchanged.