Workbench – Native RaspberryPi WebApp – Dev

Over the past few weeks I have started to develop an at-home helper that has been actively been named Workbench. For development I am using Python with PySide, HTML, JavaScript, and PHP.

This application is being created with the intent to be used in pairing with the Raspberry Pi and any format of LCD screen. Its core features that are based in four components as followed:

• Current Date and Time
• Weather including five-day forecast and current conditions.
• Event view based on data collected from Google Calendar.
• To-Do/Reminder list that can be integrated and asynchronously between the web app and mobile device. 

As of today, I have created a user login system that will eventually tie into the appropriate Google user account services to access data from Google Calendar, Tasks, or a similar third-party management system.

The date/time, weather components are now actively sending and receiving data respective to the users location and actively displaying in their placeholder locations.

What is next:

• Integrate the five-day weather forecast and appropriate icons based off of the weather codes returned from weather API call.
• Integration of base calendar component in list form.
• R&D for task/to-do system to be used on mobile device and how to parse information between platforms.