Pull data from stats API vestaboard

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+# Python
+# ======
+
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+.hypothesis/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# pyenv
+.python-version
+
+# celery beat schedule file
+celerybeat-schedule
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+
+# node / npm / yarn
+# =================
+
+# dependencies
+/node_modules
+/.pnp
+.pnp.js
+
+# testing
+/coverage
+
+# production
+/build
+
+# misc
+.DS_Store
+.env.local
+.env.development.local
+.env.test.local
+.env.production.local
+
+npm-debug.log*
+yarn-debug.log*
+yarn-error.log*
+
+# Editor
+*.swp
+*.swo
+
+# Firmware
+# =======
+
+# ESP-IDF
+sdkconfig
+sdkconfig.old
+
+# Custom
+# ======
+
+data/
+secrets.py
+secrets.h
+*.bin
+output.*
+out.*
+*.csv
+*.txt
+*.json

protoboard.py

@@ -21,12 +21,28 @@ def send_sign(text):
     if len(lines) > ROWS:
         lines = lines[:ROWS]
 
-    # The board controller expects spaces to be replaced with `0 for a blank character.
-    board_lines = [line.replace(' ', '`0') for line in lines]
+    special_chars = {
+        ' ': '`0',
+        '\\w': '`1',  # white
+        '\\r': '`2',  # red
+        '\\o': '`3',  # orange
+        '\\y': '`4',  # yellow
+        '\\g': '`5',  # green
+        '\\b': '`6',  # blue
+        '\\v': '`7',  # violet
+        '\\d': '`8',  # degree
+        #      '`9',  # also degree
+    }
+
+    for code, color in special_chars.items():
+        lines = [line.replace(code, color) for line in lines]
 
     # setup_digits handles displaying the lines on the board.
     # It will also vertically center the block of text.
-    setup_digits(board_lines, left_to_right_swap=False, real_hw=True)
+    try:
+        setup_digits(lines, left_to_right_swap=False, real_hw=True)
+    except BaseException as e:
+        print "Error setting digits:" + str(e)
 
 
 def poll_and_display():
@@ -40,7 +56,7 @@ def poll_and_display():
         try:
             response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
             data = json.load(response)
-            message = data.get('sign')
+            message = data.get('vestaboard')
 
             if message and message != last_message:
                 print "Updating sign with new message: " + message