mibandpreview

Mi Band Preview

Mi Band watchface preview generator library and Qt5 GUI written in Python3

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Features:

• Preview your Mi Band 4-6 watch faces without building them
• Set custom date/time/activity/status values for preview
• Preview updates automatically when some files inside project dir would being changed
• Current path and settings saves automatically

Installation

Ubuntu ppa

Just add my Ubuntu package archive and install application from them:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:melianmiko/software
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mibandpreview

Arch Linux

Install from AUR:

# You need Yay tool
yay -S mibandpreview-git

Building for Linux

To build everything and install:

make
sudo make install

To make deb-package

dpkg-buildpackage -b

Building for Windows

Requirements:

• MSYS2
• Visual C++ Redist 2013

MSYS2 configuration

# Update everything
pacman -Suy

# Install dependencies
pacman -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-python3 mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pillow mingw-w64-x86_64-nsis make mingw-w64-x86_64-python-certifi mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pyqt5 mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-tools
pip install pyinstaller

# Add MinGW64 tools to path
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/mingw64/bin" > ~/.bashrc

Then run build

make
make windows

Build artifacts will be located in dist folder. To build an installer, use nsis with dist/installer.nsi script.

Python3 package

⚠ Python3 package doesn't provide desktop icons. This installation method should be used only if you want to use this package as part of your own python application. If you need this package as desktop application, use Linux installation method.

Just install package from pip repository:

pip3 install mibandpreview

License

Apache 2.0