Question, what is the easiest way to display an RSS news feed with text-scroller or runtext.py ?

[jabulonboaz]

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Question, what is the easiest way to display an RSS news feed with text-scroller or runtext.py?

[sachasayan]

That's a very broad question. The implementation provided is to display text, not to parse RSS — that's up to you.

You might want to consider looking into @alexeden's Node/TS bindings for this project, which will allow you access to a greater number of internet-related APIs and functions out of the box give its Node base:

https://github.com/alexeden/rpi-led-matrix

Cheers

[jawedsoft]

I am using runtext.py and its works properly. My code collects data from feedparse and populates a text string. The string is cycled through the scroller and at fixed intervals the feedparse updates the string. I am still tinkering with it. But its works properly. regards, Jawed

[jabulonboaz]

I am using runtext.py and its works properly. My code collects data from feedparse and populates a text string. The string is cycled through the scroller and at fixed intervals the feedparse updates the string. I am still tinkering with it. But its works properly. regards, Jawed

Nice to hear sounds exciting, please share your code and some instructions here so that I can try that too. Thanks

[jabulonboaz]

That's a very broad question. The implementation provided is to display text, not to parse RSS — that's up to you.

You might want to consider looking into @alexeden's Node/TS bindings for this project, which will allow you access to a greater number of internet-related APIs and functions out of the box give its Node base:

https://github.com/alexeden/rpi-led-matrix

This is too generic with no reference to RSS I don’t see how this would help me.

[jawedsoft]

jawed-scrolling-news.txt Hello Everyone, I have shared my code example. Please don't judge my coding skills. I have taken code from different places and stitched together the snippets to show me the news. I am not a coder but I am willing to learn and improve.

Some of the things which I could not do in my code are:

1. Change the panel brightness at run-time so that the panel is bright at day and dims in the evenings
2. Show data from multiple RSS feeds
3. Start automatically when the Pi reboots..

Gradually, I plan on incorporating them.

Take care and be safe

regards, Jawed Ahmed, India Video Link : https://youtu.be/jO3w1CLbEFs

[jabulonboaz]

jawed-scrolling-news.txt Hello Everyone, I have shared my code example. Please don't judge my coding skills. I have taken code from different places and stitched together the snippets to show me the news. I am not a coder but I am willing to learn and improve.

Some of the things which I could not do in my code are:

1. Change the panel brightness at run-time so that the panel is bright at day and dims in the evenings
2. Show data from multiple RSS feeds
3. Start automatically when the Pi reboots..

Gradually, I plan on incorporating them.

Take care and be safe

regards, Jawed Ahmed, India Video Link : https://youtu.be/jO3w1CLbEFs

Thanks for this ! I will try it and then report back. I am not a developer ether so thanks again.

[jabulonboaz]

@hzeller is there an easy way to display an RSS feed say google news headlines using the C based text-scroller — parameters rather than writing new code pls?

[jabulonboaz]

jawed-scrolling-news.txt Hello Everyone, I have shared my code example. Please don't judge my coding skills. I have taken code from different places and stitched together the snippets to show me the news. I am not a coder but I am willing to learn and improve.

Some of the things which I could not do in my code are:

1. Change the panel brightness at run-time so that the panel is bright at day and dims in the evenings
2. Show data from multiple RSS feeds
3. Start automatically when the Pi reboots..

Gradually, I plan on incorporating them.

Take care and be safe

regards, Jawed Ahmed, India Video Link : https://youtu.be/jO3w1CLbEFs

Hello where in samplebase.py did you input your options pls? Did you edit the default values of the code to match you panel’s characteristics or how exactly pls? I was looking at the file and not sure how to edit it so it can take my panel parameters in to consideration.

[Jani73]

Here’s one that uses hzellers code.

https://youtu.be/omMVAtGGr_0 Read the description It creates images from rss-feeds and scroll those.