To keep a eye on the current Corona-Virus numbers I created this Programm wich displays the current stats to the Display.
For data I use this Website.
To extract the data I use BeautifulSoup.
To print the numbers to the Terminal simply run the fetch.py file.
To use it with an i2c Display you need to edit the /module/config.py file.
Every line you ned to change is explained.
You need the Folowing Material
- Any kind of a Raspberry-Pi with GPIO-Pins.
- I used this kind of LCD-Display small, big
- Jumper Cables Female - Female like This
Moast of the things you allso can get on AliExpress
Fetch current version of GitHub.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/julianbruegger/corona-display.git
cd ~/corona-displayTo setup the Display run:
sudo chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh
This Installs all the dependencies.
To run the Programm run:
Big Display
python3 display_20x4.pySmall Display
python3 display_16x2.py The first version of this with an other datasource is linked V1
Second version with Beautiful-Soup V2