34 lines
1.2 KiB
Python
34 lines
1.2 KiB
Python
import time
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import board
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from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal
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# Set up where we'll be fetching data from
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DATA_SOURCE = "https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY"
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# There's a few different places we look for data in the photo of the day
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IMAGE_LOCATION = ["url"]
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TITLE_LOCATION = ["title"]
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DATE_LOCATION = ["date"]
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# the current working directory (where this file is)
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cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
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pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE,
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json_path=(TITLE_LOCATION, DATE_LOCATION),
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status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL,
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default_bg=cwd+"/nasa_background.bmp",
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text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Arial-12.bdf",
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text_position=((5, 220), (5, 200)),
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text_color=(0xFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFF),
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text_maxlen=(50, 50), # cut off characters
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image_json_path=IMAGE_LOCATION,
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image_resize=(320, 240),
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image_position=(0, 0))
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while True:
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response = None
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try:
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response = pyportal.fetch()
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print("Response is", response)
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except RuntimeError as e:
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print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
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time.sleep(30*60) # 30 minutes till next check
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