# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries # # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT """ This example will access the Hackaday.io API, grab a number like hackaday skulls, and display it on a screen If you can find something that spits out JSON data, we can display it! Note that you need a hackaday API key to access the API! """ 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 # Some data sources and JSON locations to try out CAPTION="hackaday.io/project/163309-circuitpython-hackaday" DATA_SOURCE = "https://api.hackaday.io/v1/projects/163309?api_key="+secrets['hackaday_token'] DATA_LOCATION = ["skulls"] # the current working directory (where this file is) cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0] pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE, json_path=DATA_LOCATION, status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL, default_bg=cwd+"/had_background.bmp", text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Checkbook-50.bdf", text_position=(210, 110), text_color=0xFFFFFF, caption_text=CAPTION, caption_font=cwd+"/fonts/Arial.bdf", caption_position=(10, 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 skull!") pyportal.play_file(cwd+"/coin.wav") last_value = value except RuntimeError as e: print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e) time.sleep(60)