Corona-display

To keep a eye on the current Corona-Virus numbers I created this Programm wich displays the current stats to the Display.

Datasource

For data I use this Website.

To extract the data I use BeautifulSoup.

Make it work

To print the numbers to the Terminal simply run the fetch.py file.

To show all Corona-cases to the Display run display.py.

To change the location, you ned to adjust the url_c = "YourCountryLink". The Link you can find here. To show the correct countrycode adjust the CC = "Your countrycode" as you wish.

# Insert your URL here
url_c = "https://corona.help/country/switzerland"
# Your Countrycode
cc = "CH"

Wiring

Detailed Instructions here: Adafruit

Connect Pi 5V power to the power rail of the breadboard. From the power rail connect one outer lead of the potentiometer, LCD pin 2 (VDD), and LCD pin 15 (LED+).
Connect Pi ground to the ground rail of the breadboard. From the ground rail connect the other outer lead of the potentiometer, LCD pin 1 (VSS), and LCD pin 5 (R/W).
Connect the middle lead of the potentiometer to LCD pin 3 (V0/contrast).
Connect Pi pin 27 (or 21 on older revision Pi's) to LCD pin 4 (RS).
Connect Pi pin 22 to LCD pin 6 (E/clock enable).
Connect Pi pin 25 to LCD pin 11 (DB4).
Connect Pi pin 24 to LCD pin 12 (DB5).
Connect Pi pin 23 to LCD pin 13 (DB6).
Connect Pi pin 18 to LCD pin 14 (DB7).
Connect Pi pin 4 to LCD pin 16 (-R/red).
Connect Pi pin 17 to LCD pin 17 (-G/green).
Connect Pi pin 7 / CE1 to LCD pin 18 (-B/blue).

Setup

Fetch current version of GitHub.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/julianbruegger/corona-display.git

cd ~/corona-display

To setup the Display run:

sudo chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh

This Installs all the dependencies.

To start the Program just run:

python3 display.py

Old Version

The first version of this with an other datasource is linked Adafruit

grdguez / corona-display