This is a clock that fetches real-time images from the GOES-19
weather satellites. It runs entirely on the kindle, and doesn't need a
web server! By default, the clock works with a 800x600
resolution, fetches GeoColor images (real color in daytime, IR
at night) in the NE sector (centered at New York), and displays
the clock face at the lower right corner. To change the
resolution, sector, satellite image type
or clock location, please edit the opening lines of bin/clock.py.
To use this you must first jailbreak your kindle and install KUAL and MRPI. See here for a guide.
Download all files in this repo into a folder called goesclock.
It also requires disabling kindle deep sleep. To do this,
simply enter ~ds in the search bar. You have to do this again
every time you reboot!
This extension requires python3, Pillow, and requests. First install python3.
Then, run in kterm:
python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade
And then
python3 -m install requests
python3 -m install pillow
Then, copy the goesclock folder into the extensions, and run it from KUAL!
Be patient after clicking launch. Don't click anything else - It takes a while to launch! The Kindle has to think very hard (for about 20s) just to download and refresh every frame. This is also a simple extension that runs over the default UI, but does not disable it. For about 30 seconds nothing will happen, then the image will kick in.
Don't launch multiple instances - there's no multi-launch detection and the workload can make your kindle unresponsive.
Enjoy!
4dcu.be for the tutorial!