InkyPi on a Pi Zero 2W with a PiSugar3 for power.

[RudyRipDraw]

I am using InkyPi on a PiZero 2W power by a PiSugar3 for power and it RTC.
I have a cron script that runs quarter of the hour and programs the RTC to wake up the PiZero in 15 minutes after the current time and then does a "shutdown". The time between the power up and shutdown allows the InkyPi to update screen and then power off, saving power.

The period of time when the PiZero is powered ranges and drifts between between approximately between 1 and 15 minutes. It all depends on when the PiZero reboots, if it boots close to the quarter of the hour (15 minute chron reboot job), the run time is less, if is boots just after the quarter of the hour, the run time is longer.

Sometimes, the shutdown is in the middle of the screen refresh resulting in a partially refreshed screen. This is clear up on the next boot sequence.

Is there a simple patch that hold off shutdown unitl the InkyPi has finished screen update?

Also thanks for building this project. Is is great fun.

[nickseem]

I am using InkyPi on a PiZero 2W power by a PiSugar3 for power and it RTC.

I have a cron script that runs quarter of the hour and programs the RTC to wake up the PiZero in 15 minutes after the current time and then does a "shutdown". The time between the power up and shutdown allows the InkyPi to update screen and then power off, saving power.

The period of time when the PiZero is powered ranges and drifts between between approximately between 1 and 15 minutes. It all depends on when the PiZero reboots, if it boots close to the quarter of the hour (15 minute chron reboot job), the run time is less, if is boots just after the quarter of the hour, the run time is longer.

Sometimes, the shutdown is in the middle of the screen refresh resulting in a partially refreshed screen. This is clear up on the next boot sequence.

Is there a simple patch that hold off shutdown unitl the InkyPi has finished screen update?

Also thanks for building this project. Is is great fun.

Curious how much battery life are you getting with the current set up?

[saulob]

Interesting setup, thanks for sharing

This actually gave me an idea. I recently created a new System Info page for InkyPi: #662

It shows device stats like CPU, RAM, storage, uptime and installed plugins, both in development and real hardware

For setups like yours using PiSugar, it could be really useful to also display battery information (percentage and charging state) directly in the UI, if that data is available locally

Would that be something useful for you?

[RudyRipDraw]

The battery level is available to the Pi and already available in the PiSugar UI. In my configuration where the InkyPi is only on to refresh the image and mostly off, a better design would be to display just a battery level icon in the picture/newspaper/weather plugin. Basically the InkyPI UI and PiSugar UI is only available for a very short period of time.

If you could make it an option on the plugin to display the battery level icon in the lower corner on the picture/newspaper/weather image (current battery level or when a low level is reached). This would be perfect for me.

The reason I am using a battery is that my InkyPi is on a wall with multiple 5x7 photographs so visitors don't know that a particular picture frame changes its image. I can even put their picture up on the inkypi before hand.