Python powered Iot device for displaying quotes @adafruit #adafruit #iot: A New video by Adafruit Industries

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 = “http://bit.ly/2MY9LNg”
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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