Zero BTC Screen

Bitcoin stock price for your RPi Zero

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi Zero W (or any other RPi)
• Waveshare eInk display (supports multiple versions)

Installation

1. Turn on SPI via sudo raspi-config

   Interfacing Options -> SPI
   

2. Install eInk display drivers and dependencies

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-pil python3-numpy
   pip3 install RPi.GPIO spidev
   git clone https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git ~/e-Paper
   pip3 install ~/e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python/
   

   for more information refer to: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/2.13inch_e-Paper_HAT
3. Download Zero BTC Screen

   git clone https://github.com/dr-mod/zero-btc-screen.git ~/zero-btc-screen
   

4. Run it

   python3 ~/zero-btc-screen/main.py
   

5. To make it run on startup
   1. sudo nano /etc/rc.local
   2. Add one the following before exit 0

   /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/zero-btc-screen/main.py&
   

   conversely, you can run in screen

   su - pi -c "/usr/bin/screen -dm sh -c '/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/zero-btc-screen/main.py'"
   

Screen configuration

The application supports multiple types of e-ink screens, and an additional "picture" screen.

To configure which display(s) to use, configuration.cfg should be modified. In the following example an e-ink epd2in13v2 and "picture" screens are select:

[base]
console_logs             : false
#logs_file                : /tmp/zero-btc-screen.log
dummy_data               : false
refresh_interval_minutes : 15

# Enabled screens or devices
screens : [
    epd2in13v2
#    epd2in13bv3
    picture
  ]

# Configuration per screen
# This doesn't make any effect if screens are not enabled above
[epd2in13v2]
mode : line

[epd2in13bv3]
mode  : line

[picture]
filename : /home/pi/output.png

The following screens are supported:

• epd2in13v2
• epd2in13bv3
• picture