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Not an issue, but I couldn't find another way to leave a message. In your blog post about SystemSix you include a screenshot of the New York Times on a big e-ink screen, with the caption: "An expensive e-ink newspaper project, this one possibly a mock-up?"

I believe it's not a mockup, you can find more details about the project here: https://alexanderklopping.medium.com/an-updated-daily-front-page-of-the-new-york-times-as-artwork-on-your-wall-3b28c3261478

Per my last message I hooked up a slightly larger 7.5in display. I altered the epd name in the systemsix.py file and the eink_utils.py file as well as the display size to 800, 480. It seems to successfully pull the weather and calendar info, but unfortunately I can't get it to display. I get the following error:

INFO:app:systemsix.update_display(); updating display.
option parsing failed: Cannot open display:
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/SystemSix/systemsix.py", line 557, in
main()
File "/home/pi/SystemSix/systemsix.py", line 553, in main
time.sleep(5)

Any ideas on where I might be going wrong? I know you said to try turning off the display to test run it, but I'm running this out of a Mac terminal and I'm not sure how to get that to display without the e-ink screen. Thanks!!

More a for info (as I probably won't build your project), but I saw it on the Raspberry Pi blog and I've done something vaguely related.

In the UK at least, some councils will offset their rubbish collection when there is a Bank Holiday (and a day for each Bank Holiday on the rare event there are two before your collection that week), so a Tuesday collection becomes Wednesday etc.

There's a nice JSON feed here thankfully:
http://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json

Hi, I'm using my own public icloud calander link and when I try running the systemsix python file on my laptop, I get an error that states...

INFO:app:systemsix.update_or_start(); update hour: 16.
INFO:app:weather_module.get_forecast_URL_from_lat_long(); trying...
INFO:app:weather_module.get_forecast_URL_from_lat_long(); returning forecast URL.
INFO:app:weather_module.get_weather_forecast_from_URL(); trying....
INFO:app:weather_module.get_weather_forecast_from_URL(); got forecast data.
INFO:app:systemsix.new_layout(); fetch weather forecast successful.
INFO:app:calendar_module.get_events(); trying....
CRITICAL:app:'tzinfo' is an invalid keyword argument for replace()
WARNING:app:systemsix.new_layout(); failed to get calendar events.
INFO:app:systemsix.update_display(); updating display.
WARNING:app:Invalid format string
INFO:app:systemsix.update_display(); trying to module_exit().

Any suggestions? Also, the update display results in errors mentioning an invalid format string.

Fantastic project! Thanks for sharing. Loved reading your write-up.

You spent some time talking about using GraphicsMagick to downsample Retina-resolution (pixel-doubled) Mini vMac screenshots. (Its cousin ImageMagick is another choice.) Wanted to let you know you can avoid the need for that step by setting your screen to a non-Retina (non-HiDPI) resolution prior to making the screenshots using a utility such as RDM. Or connect an external non-Retina display to your computer and drag the Mini vMac window onto that display before screenshotting it.

Not an issue, but I didn't see another way to ask questions. I love the look of your SystemSix project. It is very nostalgic for me as my first computer experiences were with this version of an Apple. I'm new to programming / micro computing, so forgive my basic questions. I was wondering if it matters what size of screen (other than for the case), or can I use a bigger version of the screen (7.5") that I already have? Also, is there a way to show more calendar items, or have the screen refresh more than once per day? Thanks!!

I jumped through the same hoops as mentioned in the readme to get the URL for my iCloud calendar, however the call to retrieve the events (event_list = events(...)) results in an error:

INFO:app:calendar_module.get_events(); trying....
CRITICAL:app:can't compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes

Any thoughts what this means?

This is such a cool project! Noticed a small typo in the readme:

There is no e-Ink dispay of this resolution.

display is missing an “l”