Raspberry Pi Burstcoin Monitor

[sleepy]

@mathew That I did consider, but for now its more than enough for my wallet. Could go upto 999,999 and rate upto 999.99 uBTC

[sleepy]

@haitch I hope others would also build projects regarding bustcoin.

[sleepy]

Update on my monitor ,
Now it can monitor BTC rate and balance in USD
Display changes every 5 seconds between Burst and USD
Update data every 3 minutes

[sleepy]

Here is the update on the code

def main():
  lcd_init()
  lcd_string("Connecting......",LCD_LINE_1)

  while True:

        url = 'https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/burst'
        values = {'requestType' : 'getAccount',
        'account' : 'your numeric account id'}
        data = connect(url,values)
        if(data == 0):
                lcd_string("Error Network 1",LCD_LINE_1)
                time.sleep(10)
                continue
        balance=float(data['guaranteedBalanceNQT'])/100000000

#========= Get Burst Rate ===================== 

        url = 'https://poloniex.com/public?command=returnTicker'
        values = {}
        data = connect(url,values)
        if(data == 0):
                lcd_string("Error Network 2",LCD_LINE_1)
                time.sleep(10)
                continue
        burst_btc_rate=float(data['BTC_BURST']['highestBid'])

        url='https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json'
        values = {}
        data = connect(url,values)
        if(data == 0):
                lcd_string("Error Network 3",LCD_LINE_1)
                time.sleep(10)
                continue
        usd_btc_rate = float(data["bpi"]["USD"]["rate"].replace(',', ''))
        burst_usd_bal = balance * burst_btc_rate * usd_btc_rate

 #display on lcd 
        for x in range(0, 18):
                lcd_string("Bal:"+"{0:.0f}".format(balance)+" BURST",LCD_LINE_1)
                lcd_string("Rate:"+"{0:.2f}".format(burst_btc_rate*1000000)+" uBTC",LCD_LINE_2)
                time.sleep(5)
                lcd_string("Bal:"+"{0:.3f}".format(burst_usd_bal)+" USD",LCD_LINE_1)
                lcd_string("BTC:"+"{0:.0f}".format(usd_btc_rate)+" USD",LCD_LINE_2)
                time.sleep(5)

[sleepy]

If someone has suggestions or ideas let me know, I'll try to make it.

[Yottaphat]

Thanks for sharing this! I've been looking for a new project with my pi I might just have to give this a try!

[IceBurst]

I recommend you create a project on GitHub or BitBucket or the likes where you can gain control of source code version and share your project easily. Who knows you might see some really cool forks.

-IceBurst

[sleepy]

@IceBurst Thanks for info. I just uploaded to bitbucket , here is the link https://bitbucket.org/sleepy1/burst/src.

[sleepy]

@Yottaphat you are welcome. All you need is a raspberry pi and a lcd with i2c module

[Egidius]

@sleepy , how do you run the code? Do you run it into Raspbian, via terminal?

This project is marvellous, I'll buy a Raspberry Pi just for it!

[sleepy]

@Egidius actually I put is so that after boot up it automatically runs it, no need of a terminal after configuring.

[machasm]

First of all congrats on a nice project.
Since you have asked if anyone has any other suggestions, have you thought about making a miner for the RPI?
The RPI3 is a relatively strong machine and I think it would def be up to the job of mining burst.
Only problem is I lack the programming skills to come up with something myself :-(
Is there any way of porting one of the already up and running miners?

[rnahlawi]

@machasm Someone suggested to install Android image on the RPI and mine.

[machasm]

@rnahlawi
Thanks. Don't suppose you have a link?

[rnahlawi]

@machasm https://rtandroid.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/downloads/raspberry-pi/
I didn't try it at all, my Pi's are running Burst Local Wallets with Kodi and I didn't want to disturb :)

[sleepy]

@machasm thanks, I have never thought to mine or have a wallet in a raspberry pi. I'll look in to it once I have another version 3 pi, currently its used as a media center with kodi.