# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries # # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT """ This example will access the github API, grab a number like the number of stars for a repository... and display it on a screen! if you can find something that spits out JSON data, we can display it """ import time import board from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal # Get wifi details and more from a secrets.py file try: from secrets import secrets except ImportError: print("WiFi secrets are kept in secrets.py, please add them there!") raise # Set up where we'll be fetching data from DATA_SOURCE = "https://api.github.com/repos/adafruit/circuitpython" CAPTION = "www.github.com/adafruit/circuitpython" # If we have an access token, we can query more often if 'github_token' in secrets: DATA_SOURCE += "?access_token="+secrets['github_token'] # The data we want to display DATA_LOCATION = ["stargazers_count"] cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0] pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE, json_path=DATA_LOCATION, status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL, default_bg=cwd+"/stars_background.bmp", text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Collegiate-50.bdf", text_position=(200, 100), text_color=0xFFFFFF, caption_text=CAPTION, caption_font=cwd+"/fonts/Arial.bdf", caption_position=(40, 220), caption_color=0xFFFFFF) # track the last value so we can play a sound when it updates last_value = 0 while True: try: value = pyportal.fetch() print("Response is", value) if last_value < value: # ooh it went up! print("New star!") pyportal.play_file(cwd+"/coin.wav") last_value = value except (ValueError, RuntimeError, ConnectionError, OSError) as e: print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e) time.sleep(60) # wait a minute before getting again