A Crypto Ticker For raspberry pi's

[thehodogman]

Hi all was digging around on a few facebook pages the other day with the volatility in the market at the moment i was looking for a ticker to keep an eye on some of my holdings i came accross this guys post talking about how he made a raspberry pi ticker for the 3b and 4b with a 10.1inch touchscreen thought you guys might find it usefull aswell heres the link to his repo

https://github.com/raspberrypiticker

Hope this helps you guys out its fully selfcontained on the pi from from what i can see only pulls live data

Peace out long live cyrpto

[sologub]

Could you send me a photo of the final result? I couldn't find anything in the link you provided.

[BattleDog]

Neat little desk toy idea, but yeah, that GitHub link looks dead on my end too, so I'm not surprised sologub couldn't find anything. If the repo got renamed/made private or it's just a typo, that's the first fix. And if you want people to actually try it, toss in a screenshot or short gif in the README so we can see what final result even means before anyone starts wiring screens and burning SD cards.

Also, tiny practical tip from building a similar "ticker on a spare Pi" thing ages ago: keep the data pull boring and gentle. Poll an API at sane intervals, cache the last good result so your UI doesn't freeze if the internet hiccups, and run it in kiosk mode as an unprivileged user. Half the "my Pi is haunted" posts come from folks running random scripts as root and then wondering why it eats itself at 3AM.

[joniboini]

Have you checked out their releases page? Seems like they posted the image there with a screenshot. I'm not familiar with flashing Pi, but the size seems quite large, at 1.35 GB. The screenshot is still limited, though, and I don't have a Pi to try the image. There is a zipped source code on the release page, but it's just a copy of their GitHub, not the package itself as far as I can see. I'd be strongly cautious since I know little about it. CMIIW.

[ABCbits]

That GitHub account/repository looks very shady to me.
1. Some repo use GPL license, but none of them repository contain source code.
2. The text description appear to be AI generated.

I'm not familiar with flashing Pi, but the size seems quite large, at 1.35 GB.

Size doesn't matter if it's malicious by downloading the malware from internet.

There is a zipped source code on the release page, but it's just a copy of their GitHub, not the package itself as far as I can see.

Based on the description, the compressed file appear to be image file to be flashed rather than source code.

[DaveF]

I like this one: https://github.com/taoteh1221/Slideshow_Crypto_Ticker
Had one running for a few years. LCD died and I have not gotten around to replacing it but it's probably still running just can't see it :-)

-Dave

[joniboini]

Size doesn't matter if it's malicious by downloading the malware from internet.

That's true, but what I'm trying to say with that post is that I'm not sure if it is common for a Pi OS to be larger than 1 GB or not. I agree that even if it's common, it can be malicious, though.

Based on the description, the compressed file appear to be image file to be flashed rather than source code.

Yeah. I thought it was the source code at first, turns out it's nothingburger.