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Fetch the data with curl and process it further.In other words, Cloudflare does a bot check and therefore I don’t get the data I want. Now I had a look at what I was actually getting from the website and this is what came out: Cloudflare doesn’t like my request – so we have to tinker a bit : Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) I wanted to get the JSON data and got an error message. If I get the URL via Python’s requests, I bump into the first problem.

So I get the same output as in the screenshot, but without the markets.
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Bitcoin price at įor me the ticker is enough therefore I will use the following URL (the difference is that in the URL full is exchanged for ticker): Moreover, you get values from several exchanges and if you want, you can display the value from a specific exchange. Furthermore, the provider supports many currencies and crypto currencies and you can combine as you like. I chose because it delivers the needed values in JSON format. There are now several websites that can be used. Get Bitcoin price with Python and Raspberry Pi You can find the complete script in the middle of the article. I go through what I have done step by step. But I do not program that much and my solution works. Probably programming gurus are packing my project into a one-liner.
CRYPTOCURRENCY TICKER ON RASPBERRY PI HOW TO
I would like to describe here the way to my solution: how to get the Bitcoin price with the Raspberry Pi and Python 3 and show it on the Sense HAT. It worked, but there were a few pitfalls. Of course, it can also be used for other crypto currencies. Now I thought about that you can also create a Bitcoin price tracker with it. You can do so much with it - even build your own weather station. Later I will add a sensor to read luminosity from Raspberry PI and adjust but looks like these indoor 128圆4 are less bright than the outdoor 64x32 ones, so even with 100% brightness it does not seems to be too much.I love my Sense HAT.
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You can change RGB hardware config in the main cryptoticker.py file (and yes, it's hard coded for now) Install this repoĬonnect to your ticker over ssh and update and install necessary packages No need to go futher is this does not works.įor now only 128圆4 RGB Matrix is supported and please note that script need to be launched with sudo because of hardware pulse enabled on my adafruit-hat-pwm, If you have other hardware connected to your matrix you may need remove this feature and be able to run without sudo, just let me know how it works if you do that.

Please read carrefully installation and instruction of RGB matrix stuff from official and test that your RGB matrix is working with officials Python samples. If you are running the Pi headless, connect to your Raspberry Pi using ssh. These instructions assume that your Raspberry Pi is already connected to the Internet, happily running pip and has python3 installed) I've also included a script get_icons.sh go get crypto icons. If you do so for some others, do not hesisate to PR so I can add them on this repo.
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Since download of original logo may have some glitch when used with RGB Matrix, I needed to adjust with GIMP (or other) the one I'm using for a better display (for now BitCoin, Helium, IoTex and ). If image file corresponding to name of crypto is found (ie bitcoin_32.png) in the currency folder, it will be used, if not it will be downloaded when fetching data and saved. main loop that scroll thru images generated above for faster display (default 5 seconds)Ī few minutes work gives you nice RGB Matrix tp unobtrusively monitor a coin's journey moonward.one thread fired on basis interval to get data from and generate according final image.Since on PI Zero generating image with Python can take some time (approx 30 seconds), process has been splitted in two parts: The script periodically takes data from CoinGecko and generate image files that will be displayed on the Matrix. (supports all 7000+ coins/currencies listed on CoinGecko)Īn Cryptocurrency price ticker that runs as a Python script on a Raspberry Pi connected to a 128圆4 RGB Matrix. All this magic is done by awesome library done by with RGB Led Matrix Library Features

I just replaced original e-Paper display by an RGB Matrix One. This project is inspired from original ePaper Cryptocurrency Ticker done by So all credits are going to original project
