go-vestaboard

An unofficial client for the Vestaboard API in go.

Usage

Create a new client

client := vestaboard.New(c.APIKey, c.Secret)

From there, use the client methods

• Viewer to get the information from the connected viewer
• Subscriptions to get the subscription information
• SendText to post a message with the default formatting

Examples

There are a nice set of demos in cmd/ To use these, set your API Key and Secret as environment variables.

export APIKEY=YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE
export SECRET=YOUR_SECRET_GOES_HERE

Then just run the 'main.go' in whichever directory:

go run cmd/send-text/main.go

Send Text

Does what it says - writes 'Hello World' to your vestaboard.

Clock

Writes out the current time about every 15 seconds.

Game of Life

Conway's game of life.

Subscriptions

Prints out the current subscriptions tied to the Vestaboard to the command-line.

Test Pattern

Writes a fun test-pattern to the Vestaboard.

Viewer

Prints results of the Vestaboard 'Viewer' API method to the command-line.