Beta of Python powered Iot device for displaying quotes from https://www.adafruit.com/quotes

code sample...

import time

import board

from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal

from adafruit_bitmap_font import bitmap_font

from adafruit_display_text.text_area import TextArea

# 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']

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="/fonts/Arial-ItalicMT-17.bdf", text_position=((20, 40), # quote location (5, 190)), # 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

)

while True: try: value = pyportal.fetch() print("Response is", value) except RuntimeError as e: print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e) time.sleep(5)

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