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[The Dalek Hunter]

I am trying to setup a scrolling ticker display on a Raspberry Pi with the current conditions from one of my websites, unfortunately my coding skill is low!!!!

I have got the ticker bit sorted it's just the rss file I can't figure out.

I did some searching in the forum and came up with the file below.

I am getting CMX to upload and process the file as an extra web file.

However when displayed via the ticker no variables (ie temp ) are shown.

I know the ticker is working as it displays an rss feed from the Metoffice perfectly.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Long Sutton Weather</title>
<description>Current Conditions</description>
<link>http://angteck.co.uk</link>
<item>
<title>Current Temp</title>
<description>Temp <#temp> C</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Current Pressure</title>
<description>Pressure <#press> mb</description>
<link>http://angteck.co.uk</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

[The Dalek Hunter]

And just to clarify further the ticker will be displayed an a Raspberry Pi Sense Hat using the following python code

import feedparser
from sense_hat import SenseHat

sense = SenseHat()

d = feedparser.parse("https://angteck.co.uk/rss.xml")

print (d.feed.title)

for post in d.entries:
print (post.title)
sense.show_message(post.title.replace("°","'"))

[mcrossley]

The XML looks like it has values in it now?

[The Dalek Hunter]

It does - but my script does not seem to be able to read them! No idea why!!

It reads the Metoffice rss feed ok!

[mcrossley]

But the code above only appears to use the title, the values are in the descriptions.

[The Dalek Hunter]

I am afraid my Python skills amount to Google->Copy->Paste->Google Python Errors

I will need to do some more Googling!!!!

[mcrossley]

I know nothing about it, but I think you would want...

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sense.show_message(post.description)

But won't that show the messages really fast? You may want a delay in the loop.

[PaulMy]

Interesting...
Beyond me to even begin to understand, but I do follow instructions and a lot of trial and error. About 10 years ago forum member BCJKiwi (Brian) wrote an RSS script and I had it working on both my Cumulus template and Saratoga template sites. I think some time ago it stopped working and appears to be some deprecated PHP code but it is still being processed and updated by my old CU1 setup http://www.komokaweather.com/weather/cumulusrss.php

Enjoy,
Paul

[BCJKiwi]

Yes, I stopped using it when it stopped working and I couldn't figure out why

[The Dalek Hunter]

I know nothing about it, but I think you would want...

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sense.show_message(post.description)

But won't that show the messages really fast? You may want a delay in the loop.

Many thanks that worked perfectly - my code is now - it has a default scroll speed that is slow enough to read perfectly

import feedparser
from sense_hat import SenseHat

sense = SenseHat()

import time

d = feedparser.parse("https://angteck.co.uk/rss.xml")

while True:

for post in d.entries:
sense.show_message(post.description)