Steemit-Notification-Module-for-Raspberry-Pi

Notification of your Steemit account activity on Raspberry Pi platform

Setup Procedure:

Notification module setup procedures

Hardware setup:

1. Requirements:

   1x LCD Display with supported port expanders : PCF8574, the MCP23008 and the MCP23017 <-- for I2C connection

   1x LED (with resistor)

2. Wiring :

   i) LED:

    • Connect to GRD and GPIO 0 
   

   ii) LCD Display:

    Connect the pins on the right with the Raspberry Pi:
   
    • GND: Pin 6 (GND)
   
    • VCC: Pin 4 (5V)
   
    • SDA: Pin 3 (SDA)
   
    • SCL: Pin 5 (SCL)
   

3. Enable I2C interface: $ sudo raspi-config • Select "Interface Options" • Select "I2C" • Select "Yes" • Select "OK" • Select "Finish" to quit raspi-config

4. Check I2C address :

   $ sudo i2cdetect -y 1

   Find the i2c address in the table displayed.

Software Setup:

1. Install LCD library -- RPLCD

   i) Install RPLCD directly from using pip:

    $ sudo pip3 install RPLCD (for python2 use pip)
   

   ii) If you want to use I2C, you also need smbus:

    $ sudo apt-get install python3-smbus (for python2 use python-smbus)
   

2. Install Python-steem (piston-steem)

   $ sudo apt-get update

   $ sudo apt-get upgrade

   $ git clone https://github.com/xeroc/piston-lib/

   $ cd piston-lib

   $ python3 setup.py install --user

if you get "fatal error: openssl/aes.h : No such file or directory" error, you may need to install Openssl Development package

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

3. Download Steem_notify.py

4. Change 'account_name' in line 10 of Steem_notify.py to your own Steemit account name

5. Update line 15 of Steem_notify.py to reflect your system's own i2c address

6. Run it!

   $ python3 Steem_notify.py