Change the brightness of the lights depending on the sentiment of the news

This script uses the newsAPI to get the top headlines and then uses openAI to get the sentiment of the headlines. The script then changes the brightness of the lifx lights depending on the sentiment of the news.

Table of Contents

• How to use
• How to setup your lifx lights
• Credits

How to use

1. Create a lifx account and get your token from here
2. Create an openAI account and get your token from here
3. Create a newsAPI account and get your token from here
4. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/catbox-dev/newsMoodLight.git

5. Install the requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

6. Replace the tokens in confi.ini with your tokens
7. Make sure you have correctly setup your lifx lights, see here
8. Run the python script

python3 newsMoodLight.py

How to set up your lifx lights

1. Install the lifx app on your phone
2. Connect your phone and your computer to the same wifi network
3. Open the lifx app and connect your lights

Credits

• newsAPI
• openAI
• lifx
• Project by catbox-dev