The feed picks up the headlines from the BBC news service and then runs continuously on the SenseHat display. Any other valid newsfeed could be substituted for the BBC feed.
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RSS feed running on the Raspberry Pi with SenseHat. I couldn't get a much better photo then this. |
Step 1
I used feedparser for the RSS feeds. This can be installed on your Pi using the following command:
sudo pip install feedparser
Step 2
The following Python 2 code runs an infinite loop which loads the first twenty articles from the BBC website and displays them continuously on the SenseHat display.
#Sense Hat RSS reader #For Python 2 from sense_hat import SenseHat import feedparser import time sense = SenseHat() sense.set_rotation(270) ARTICLE_LIMIT = 20 print "Ticker running on SenseHat" while True: for i in range(ARTICLE_LIMIT): time.sleep(0.5) d = feedparser.parse('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk') sense.show_message(d.entries[i].description, back_colour=[255,0,0], text_colour=[255,255,255], scroll_speed=0.07) time.sleep(2.5)
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