chirimbolito 0.dev7

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

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 pip 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 $ pip install chirimbolito

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

CONTRIBUITING

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

PACKAGING

export VERSION=’0.dev7’

# bump the $VERSION in setup.py

python3 setup.py sdist

python3 setup.py bdist_wheel

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

gpg –detach-sign -a dist/chirimbolito-$VERSION-py2-none-any.whl

python3 twine upload –repository pypi dist/*

git tag -s $VERSION

git push –tags