Corona-display

To keep a eye on the current Corona-Virus numbers I created this Programm wich displays the current stats to the Display.

Datasource

For data I use this Website.

To extract the data I use BeautifulSoup.

Make it work

To print the numbers to the Terminal simply run the fetch.py file.

To use it with an i2c Display you need to edit the /module/config.py file.

Every line you ned to change is explained.

Wiring

Setup

Material

You need the Folowing Material

• Any kind of a Raspberry-Pi with GPIO-Pins.
• I used this kind of LCD-Display small, big
• Jumper Cables Female - Female like This

Moast of the things you allso can get on AliExpress

Install

Fetch current version of GitHub.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/julianbruegger/corona-display.git

cd ~/corona-display

To setup the Display run:

sudo chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh

This Installs all the dependencies.

To run the Programm run:

Big Display

python3 display_20x4.py

Small Display

python3 display_16x2.py 

Old Version's

The first version of this with an other datasource is linked V1

Second version with Beautiful-Soup V2