Kivy animation rotation over 360 degrees - wind direction indicator - animation

Question

I am learning every day and invest many hours in a simple looking project.
Now I am faced with the problem that kivy rotates backwards my windrose after input of values over 360 degree.
Example:
First input: 356 degree -> rotates forwards to next input 360 degree.
Third input: 10 degree -> rotates backwards from 360 degree all the way back to 10 degree instead of using the shortest way.
What can I do to teach kivy to rotate always the shortest way? Forward and backwards?
See the example picture here
import socket
from kivy.animation import Animation
from kivy.clock import Clock, mainthread
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import Screen, ScreenManager
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.config import Config
from kivy.core.window import Window
from kivy.properties import NumericProperty
Config.set('graphics', 'width', '600')
Config.set('graphics', 'height', '650')
Window.size = (550, 650)
Window.clearcolor = (0.219, 0.247, 0.282, 1)
icon = "meteo_icon.ico"
title = "AWOS 1.0 display"
UDP_IP = ""
UDP_PORT = 6999
sock=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,
socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
sock.bind((UDP_IP, UDP_PORT))
class DirWindow(Screen):
pass
class WindowManager(ScreenManager):
pass
KV = """
WindowManager:
DirWindow:
<DirWindow>:
angle: 0
name: 'AWOS_windrose'
Image:
source: 'rwy_pic.png'
size_hint: None, None
size: 400, 400
pos_hint: {'center_x': 0.5, 'center_y': 0.4}
canvas.before:
PushMatrix
Rotate:
angle: 110
axis: (0, 0, 1)
origin: (self.center_x, self.center_y , 0)
canvas.after:
PopMatrix
Image:
source: 'arrow_thin.png'
size_hint: None, None
size: 530, 530
pos_hint: {'center_x': 0.5, 'center_y': 0.4}
# apply rotation matrix to this Image
canvas.before:
PushMatrix
Rotate:
angle: root.angle
axis: (0, 0, 1)
origin: (self.center_x, self.center_y , 0)
canvas.after:
PopMatrix
Image:
source: 'wind_dial.png'
size_hint: None, None
size: 500, 500
pos_hint: {'center_x': 0.5, 'center_y': 0.4}
"""
class MyMainApp(App):
angle = NumericProperty(0)
def build(self):
self.title = 'AWOS 1.0 - Wind Display'
Clock.schedule_interval(self.animate_needle, 2) # start the animation in 2 seconds
return Builder.load_string(KV)
def animate_needle(self, dt):
data, addr = sock.recvfrom(1024)
wind_direction = (data.decode()[35:38])
#wind_speed = (data.decode()[26:30])
wind_control = (data.decode()[20:24])
a = "WIND"
if wind_control == a:
self.anim = Animation(angle=(-int(wind_direction)), duration=2)
self.anim.repeat = True
windrose = self.root.get_screen('AWOS_windrose')
self.anim.start(windrose)
print(wind_direction)
def on_angle(self, item, angle):
if angle == 360:
item.angle = 0