MastoInky

Display image posts from a Mastodon personal, hashtag or public timeline on a Raspberry Pi with the Pimoroni Inky Developer E Ink

Prerequisites

You will need a Raspberry Pi (I used a Zero W) and the Pimoroni Inky Developer 7-colour Eink display.

Installation

1. Follow the installation instructions for the Python library at https://github.com/pimoroni/inkydev-python

sudo raspi-config nonint do_i2c 0
sudo raspi-config nonint do_spi 0
pip3 install inkydev
pip3 install inky[rpi,fonts]

2. Install Python libraries

pip3 install Mastodon.py
pip3 install pillow

3. Download MastoInky to your Pi

wget https://github.com/axwax/MastoInky/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
unzip main.zip
cd  MastoInky-main

4. Get a Mastodon access token at https://{your mastodon instance}/settings/applications

5. Enter your API credentials in credentials_example.py and rename to credentials.py

6. If you want to follow an account's timeline, you first have to find the account id

python3 search_for_account_id.py

and add it to credentials.py.

7. At the bottom of mastoinky.py uncomment the relevant line for the timeline to use (account, public or hashtag).

8. run

python3 mastoinky.py