import time import board from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal # Set up where we'll be fetching data from DATA_SOURCE = "https://www.adafruit.com/api/quotes.php" QUOTE_LOCATION = [0, 'text'] AUTHOR_LOCATION = [0, 'author'] # the current working directory (where this file is) cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0] pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE, json_path=(QUOTE_LOCATION, AUTHOR_LOCATION), status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL, default_bg=cwd+"/quote_background.bmp", text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Arial-ItalicMT-17.bdf", text_position=((20, 120), # quote location (5, 210)), # author location text_color=(0xFFFFFF, # quote text color 0x8080FF), # author text color text_wrap=(35, # characters to wrap for quote 0), # no wrap for author text_maxlen=(180, 30), # max text size for quote & author ) # speed up projects with lots of text by preloading the font! pyportal.preload_font() while True: try: value = pyportal.fetch() print("Response is", value) except (ValueError, RuntimeError) as e: print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e) time.sleep(60)