Bitcoin Ticker

Display bitcoin.de exchange rate on the PaPiRus ePaper display with Raspberry Pi.

Auto Startup

1. Install screen:

sudo apt-get install screen

2. Create a startup script at /home/pi/startup:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# run ticker in a screen
screen -dmS ticker /home/pi/bitcoin-ticker/ticker.py

3. Add the following line to /etc/rc.local just before exit 0:

# Run startup script as user pi
su - pi /home/pi/startup

4. Restart the Pi with sudo reboot.

After connecting (ssh pi@raspberrypi.local), you can check that the screen is running with screen -ls.
You can attach to it with screen -r and detach with ctrl+a and then d.