hashtag to scrollPhathd

[MrGJones]

hi i have a rpizerow scrolling tweets to a scrollphat hd show here http://forums.pimoroni.com/t/twitter-hashtag-to-scroll-phat/1609

and i keep getting this error, can anyone help with this please? :)

`Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Pimoroni/gScrollPhatHD.py", line 60, in
myStream.filter(track=['hug'], async=False)
File "build/bdist.linux-armv6l/egg/tweepy/streaming.py", line 450, in filter
self._start(async)
File "build/bdist.linux-armv6l/egg/tweepy/streaming.py", line 364, in _start
self._run()
File "build/bdist.linux-armv6l/egg/tweepy/streaming.py", line 297, in _run
six.reraise(*exc_info)
File "build/bdist.linux-armv6l/egg/tweepy/streaming.py", line 266, in _run
self._read_loop(resp)
File "build/bdist.linux-armv6l/egg/tweepy/streaming.py", line 316, in _read_loop
line = buf.read_line().strip()
File "build/bdist.linux-armv6l/egg/tweepy/streaming.py", line 181, in read_line
self._buffer += self._stream.read(self._chunk_size)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/response.py", line 214, in read
raise ProtocolError('Connection broken: %r' % e, e)
ProtocolError: ('Connection broken: IncompleteRead(0 bytes read, 512 more expected)', IncompleteRead(0 bytes read, 512 more expected))

`
#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import time
import tweepy
import scrollphathd
from scrollphathd.fonts import font5x7smoothed

scrollphathd.clear()

while True:
try:
class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
def on_status(self, status):
if not status.text.startswith('RT'):
scroll_tweet(status)
def on_error(self, status_code):
if status_code == 420:
return False

    def scroll_tweet(status):
        status = '     >>>>>     @%s: %s     ' % (status.user.screen_name.upper(), status.text.upper())
        status = status.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')            
        scrollphathd.write_string(status,font=font5x7smoothed, brightness=0.1)
        status_length = scrollphathd.write_string(status, x=0, y=0,font=font5x7smoothed, brightness=0.1)
        print status
        print 'status length --->',status_length
        while status_length > 0:
                #print 'status length',status_length
                #print 'buffer_len',scrollphathd.write_string(status, x=0, y=0,font=font5x7smoothed, brightness=0.1)
                #scrollphathd.flip(x=True)
                scrollphathd.rotate(degrees=180)
                scrollphathd.show()
                scrollphathd.scroll(1)
                time.sleep(0.01)
                status_length -= 1
        else:
                scrollphathd.scroll(0)
                scrollphathd.clear()
            
    consumer_key =''
    consumer_secret =''

    access_token = ''
    access_token_secret = ''

    #scrollphathd.write_string("Loading Tweets")
    #scrollphathd.scroll()
    #time.sleep(0.1)

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)

    myStreamListener = MyStreamListener()
    myStream = tweepy.Stream(auth = api.auth, listener=myStreamListener)

    myStream.filter(track=['hug'], async=False)

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    scrollphathd.clear()
    sys.exit(-1)

`

[wodim]

It clearly says what the error is. The connection to Twitter was broken. Just reconnect.

[Harmon758]

Duplicate of #237.

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