Cheerlights in a few lines of Python code

[Leif Bloomquist]

I love the Cheerlights project (http://cheerlights.com/) which lets you connect your Christmas lights to a worldwide IoT network, controlled via Twitter

I got my Omega2 the other day and was playing around with it...I realized the RGB LED on the Expansion dock would be perfect for a mini Cheerlights client. So, here's the code...

[Leif Bloomquist]

import urllib
import os
import time

link = "http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/1417/field/2/last.txt"

while (True):
    f = urllib.urlopen(link)
    color = f.read()
    color = color.replace("#", "0x")
    print "Setting LED to " + color
    os.system("expled " + color)
    time.sleep(5)

[Leif Bloomquist]

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[György Farkas]

@Leif-Bloomquist said in Cheerlights in a few lines of Python code:

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Blocks of code are fenced by lines with three back-ticks``` in Markdown.
See also the COMPOSE button on the top right corner please

[Leif Bloomquist]

@György-Farkas Got it,thank you!!