uticker

An information scroller Twitter trends, news, weather for raspberry pi and Pimoroni Unicorn Hat Mini and Scroll Phat HD.

Features include:

  • Twitter trends for multiple locations
  • Weather information with many options to display
  • News Headlines with configurable items
  • Bitcoin prices against other currencies
  • Multithreaded configurable content fetching for smooth scrolling
  • Day/Night time brightness for better visibility
  • Configurable scroll speed
  • Color configuration per scrolling content (unicorn hat only)

Required Parts:

  • Raspberry Pi of any kind
  • Pimoroni Unicorn Hat Mini or Scroll Phat HD

Installation and Running

Install the Unicorn Hat Mini or Scroll Phat Hd to your raspberry pi and install required libraries.

Login to your raspberry pi.

  1. Use git to clone the repo.

git clone https://github.com/tsenyurt/uticker.git
  1. Change to project folder.

cd uticker
  1. Install dependencies.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  1. Create your own configuration

mv config.py.sample config.py

NOTE

The configuration file requires API keys and tokens for authentication. The links for API services registration are provided in the config file.

For Unicorn hat mini

python3 ./uticker.py

For scroll phat hd

python3 ./sticker.py

Happy scrolling!

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

APACHE

GitHub

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