BTC Dashboard

The dashboard is an up-to-date tracking of your key BTC indicators. Instead of having to use apps like Blockfolio or websites, you use this code that runs on a Pi with a LCD display. The dashboard includes:

Market: Price, sats/USD and MarketCap, Dominance

Mempool: Transactions, blocks to clear

Blockchain: height and fees (sats/b and USD), hash-rate, next difficulty, date of next difficulty adjustment

Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index

Volume Public Lightning Network in BTC

Colors: red or green when the change is over 5%. Currently implemented in: Marketcap and Price

Hardware

Standard Raspberry Pi 3 or 4

Hyperpixel 3.5" display . Other displays should do also the job but I found it difficult to get them working

Don't use the default OS supplied by Raspberry. Follow the instructions described below (Install for Hyperpixel)

What I am currently working on:

1. Automatic screensaver (by time) to save display
2. Automatic start with using variables (for example display switch off/on time)
3. GitHub stats
4. Needs at least two other modes of this, like one to get your local breakout price and another as we approach/pass ATH
5. Finish error handling

Display

Install for HyperPixel 4.0 (3.5" display)
Only follow these instructions. It will save you a lot of time:
https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/getting-started-with-hyperpixel-4

Other displays (not HiperPixel)
If you can get them to work, they should be good enough for this project.

To rotate the display:

sudo nano /boot/config.txt change display_rotate=1 to display_rotate=2
now reboot the machine and the display should be vertical.

Let the program automatically start after reboot

crontab -e

insert the following code at the end:

@reboot DISPLAY=:0 sudo pigpiod
@reboot DISPLAY=:0 python3 /home/pi/BTCDashboard.py

additional documentation: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/cron.md

To stop the program

To stop the program, click on the BTC logo.

Python

Start the program with "python3" and not "python" ("python3 BTCDashboard.py")