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A Bitcoin address monitoring tool built with a Raspberry Pi and a LCD display

A Bitcoin address monitoring tool built with a Raspberry Pi and a LCD display

Features

• It pulls the balance of the bitcoin addresses you want to monitor

• It displays the BTC and FIAT of your choise for each address

• It supports multiple addresses

• It is easy to configure trough a json file

• The background color changes according to the FIAT price fluctuations. It compares the price of the present vs the price from yesterday’s closing

You will need

• one Raspberry Pi

• one micro SD card

• one LCD screen, Adafruit RGB Negative 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi

• one or more bitcoin address to monitor

How to build it

• Install Raspbian Stretch Lite on the micro SD card. This is beyond the scope of this document, you can find a good guide here

• Enable sshd on a headless Raspberry Pi

• Install the LCD screen and the micro SD card in the Raspberry Pi

• Boot the Raspberry Pi

• ssh into the Raspberry Pi and install the bitcoin address monitoring tool

  ssh pi@raspbian

  password: (the default password is ‘raspberry’)

  pi@raspbian ~ $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential python3 python3-dev python3-smbus python3-pip i2c-tools

  pi@raspbian ~ $ sudo pip3 install –upgrade pip

  pi@raspbian ~ $ sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G i2c pi

  pi@raspbian ~ $ mkdir chirimbolito

  pi@raspbian ~ $ virtualenv chirimbolito

  pi@raspbian ~ $ cd chirimbolito

  pi@raspbian ~/chirimbolito $ source bin/activate

  (chirimbolito) pi@raspbian ~/chirimbolito $ pip3 install chirimbolito

  (chirimbolito) pi@raspbian ~ $ mkdir ~/.config && test -f ~/.config/chirimbolito.json || curl -sLo ~/.config/chirimbolito.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facastagnini/python-chirimbolito/master/chirimbolito.json

• Edit the file ~/.config/chirimbolito.json to configure the bitcoin addresses that you want to monitor.

• Start the service (TODO)

CONTRIBUITING

Contributions gladly accepted, just open a ticket or send a PR :)

PACKAGING

pip install –user check-manifest

# check MANIFEST.in to make sure we are including everything we need

check-manifest

export VERSION=’0.dev7’

# bump the $VERSION in setup.py

python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

gpg –detach-sign -a dist/chirimbolito-$VERSION.tar.gz

gpg –detach-sign -a dist/chirimbolito-$VERSION-py3-none-any.whl

python3 -m twine upload –repository pypi dist/*

git tag -s $VERSION

git push –tags