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@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ Display random Unsplash photos on an Inky Impression e-paper display, with a web
- Fetches random high-resolution photos from Unsplash (cached to gallery)
- Upload your own images via the web interface (drag-and-drop, multi-file)
- Centres and scales images to fit the display resolution
- Centres, scales, and rotates images to fit the display
- Colour saturation tuning for e-paper
- Display orientation — configure the physical mounting direction (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°)
— Unsplash orientation filter is auto-derived (portrait/landscape/squarish)
- Web dashboard with preview, gallery, rotation queue, and config editor
- MQTT integration for remote commands and status reporting
- Simulation mode for testing without hardware (configurable resolution)
@@ -43,24 +45,34 @@ The installer will:
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
# Optional: install dev dependencies for running tests
pip install -e ".[dev]"
```
## Configuration
Edit `/etc/spectra/config.yaml` (or `~/.config/spectra/config.yaml` or `config.yaml` in the current directory):
Copy `config.example.yaml` to `config.yaml` and fill in your Unsplash access key.
spectra searches for `config.yaml` in this order:
1. `$PWD/config.yaml`
2. `~/.config/spectra/config.yaml`
3. `/etc/spectra/config.yaml`
Or pass a custom path: `spectra -c /path/to/config.yaml`
```yaml
unsplash:
access_key: "your_access_key_here"
query: "nature"
orientation: "landscape"
collections: ""
display:
saturation: 0.5
# resolution:
# width: 800
# height: 480
orientation: 0 # 0, 90, 180, 270 (degrees clockwise)
resolution:
width: 1600
height: 1200
schedule:
interval_hours: 1
@@ -79,6 +91,10 @@ paths:
cache: /var/cache/spectra
```
> **Note:** The `unsplash.orientation` key is no longer used. The Unsplash
> orientation filter (`landscape`/`portrait`/`squarish`) is now derived
> automatically from `display.orientation` + `display.resolution`.
## Usage
### Display loop
@@ -109,7 +125,7 @@ spectra web
# With custom host/port
spectra web --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5000
# Verbose logging
# Verbose logging (debug mode is limited to localhost)
spectra web -v
```
@@ -118,7 +134,22 @@ The web interface provides:
- **Dashboard** — display status, schedule info, quick actions (refresh, clear)
- **Gallery** — browse all uploaded and cached Unsplash images, trigger "show now"
- **Upload** — drag-and-drop multiple image files with progress tracking
- **Settings** — live-edit Unsplash, display, schedule, and MQTT configuration
- **Settings** — live-edit Unsplash, display (including orientation), schedule, and MQTT configuration
- **Preview** — preview how an image will look on the display (respects current orientation)
### Display orientation
Set `display.orientation` in config or via Settings > Display > Display Orientation:
| Value | Unsplash filter | Use case |
|-------|----------------|-------------------------|
| 0 | landscape | Default horizontal mount |
| 90 | portrait | Vertical mount |
| 180 | landscape | Upside-down horizontal |
| 270 | portrait | Upside-down vertical |
Images are cropped to the effective aspect ratio, resized, then rotated to match
the physical panel. The preview and thumbnails reflect the configured orientation.
### MQTT
@@ -141,11 +172,22 @@ journalctl -u spectra -f
journalctl -u spectra-web -f
```
## Running tests
```bash
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/
```
107 tests covering config loading, display processing (crop, resize, rotation),
trigger atomicity, MQTT parsing, and the full web API (all 19 routes).
## Project structure
```
spectra/
├── config.yaml # Example configuration
├── config.example.yaml # Example config (copy to config.yaml)
├── .gitignore # Ignores config.yaml (contains secrets)
├── install.sh # Installer script
├── pyproject.toml # Package metadata
├── requirements.txt # Python dependencies
@@ -166,10 +208,20 @@ spectra/
│ ├── templates/ # Jinja2 templates (6 pages)
│ ├── static/ # CSS and JS
│ └── __init__.py
├── tests/
│ ├── test_api.py # 42 API endpoint tests
│ ├── test_config.py # Config loading and deep-merge
│ ├── test_display.py # Display processing and orientation
│ ├── test_gallery.py # Upload + delete flow
│ ├── test_mqtt.py # MQTT path and lookup
│ ├── test_orientation.py # Orientation edge cases
│ ├── test_trigger.py # Trigger atomicity
│ └── conftest.py # Test fixtures
├── systemd/
│ ├── spectra.service # Display loop systemd unit
│ └── spectra-web.service # Web interface systemd unit
└── docs/
├── display-orientation.md # Display orientation design doc
├── web-interface.md # Web interface documentation
└── mqtt.md # MQTT integration documentation
```