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I followed Adafruit's great Drive a 16x2 LCD with the Raspberry Pi tutorial using:
However, wallarug identified a problem with the Adafruit_CharLCD library for the . It turned out the simplest fix is to switch the pin numbering scheme to that of the physical header rather than the Broadcom SoC. Until Adafruit accepts my pull request, I'd recommend using Adafruit_CharLCD from my repository if you have a Rev 2.0 Pi.
After sorting that out, I wrote a Python script to display tweets for a given hashtag (display-hashtag.py) which can be found in my tweetypi GitHub repo. I use Python Twitter Tools by Mike Verdone to search Twitter.
Follow these instructions to install the hashtag display:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo pip install twitter
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mkdir python
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd python
pi@raspberrypi ~/python $ git clone https://github.com/pdp7/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code.git
Cloning into 'Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code'...
remote: Counting objects: 185, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (117/117), done.
remote: Total 185 (delta 83), reused 158 (delta 56)
Receiving objects: 100% (185/185), 55.25 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (83/83), done.
pi@raspberrypi ~/python $ git clone https://github.com/pdp7/tweetypi.git
Cloning into 'tweetypi'...
remote: Counting objects: 13, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done.
remote: Total 13 (delta 2), reused 8 (delta 2)
Unpacking objects: 100% (13/13), done.
pi@raspberrypi ~/python $ cd tweetypi
The only required argument for display-hashtag is the hashtag. The usual '#' hashtag prefix should be omitted from the argument as it is added by the Python code. The defaults assume 16x2 char LCD:
sudo ./display-hashtag bears
Here's a video clip of it running:
The HashTagDisplay class supports character LCD from 16x1 up to 20x4. Here would be the arguments for 20x4 LCD:
sudo ./display-hashtag --verbose --cols 20 --rows 4 --delay 3 bears
Video clip of 20x4 display:
Cheers,
Drew
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