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Show Twitter feed on and LED matrix using the hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix Python library
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| from samplebase | |
| import SampleBase | |
| from rgbmatrix | |
| import graphics | |
| import time | |
| import twitter | |
| api = twitter.Api(consumer_key = '???', | |
| consumer_secret = '???', | |
| access_token_key = '???', | |
| access_token_secret = '???') | |
| t = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name = "jackatlush", count = 1) | |
| tweets = [i.AsDict() for i in t] | |
| for t in tweets: | |
| print(t['text']) | |
| class RunText(SampleBase): | |
| def __init__(self, * args, ** kwargs): | |
| super(RunText, self).__init__( * args, ** kwargs) | |
| self.parser.add_argument("-t", "--text", help = "The text to scroll on the RGB LED panel", | |
| default = "Hello world!") | |
| def run(self): | |
| offscreen_canvas = self.matrix.CreateFrameCanvas() | |
| font = graphics.Font() | |
| font.LoadFont("../../../fonts/10x20.bdf") | |
| textColor = graphics.Color(255, 0, 255) | |
| pos = offscreen_canvas.width | |
| while True: | |
| global tweets | |
| offscreen_canvas.Clear() | |
| len = graphics.DrawText(offscreen_canvas, font, pos, 15, textColor, tweets[0]['text']) | |
| pos -= 2 | |
| if (pos + len < 0): | |
| pos = offscreen_canvas.width | |
| t = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name = "jackatlush", count = 1) | |
| tweets = [i.AsDict() for i in t] | |
| for t in tweets: | |
| print(t['text']) | |
| time.sleep(0.05) | |
| offscreen_canvas = self.matrix.SwapOnVSync(offscreen_canvas) | |
| # Main | |
| function | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| run_text = RunText() | |
| if (not run_text.process()): | |
| run_text.print_help() |
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