1  # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Scott Shawcroft, written for Adafruit Industries
 2  #
 3  # SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
 4  import time
 5  from adafruit_magtag.magtag import MagTag
 6  
 7  # Set up where we'll be fetching data from
 8  DATA_SOURCE = "https://www.adafruit.com/api/quotes.php"
 9  QUOTE_LOCATION = [0, 'text']
10  AUTHOR_LOCATION = [0, 'author']
11  
12  magtag = MagTag(
13      url=DATA_SOURCE,
14      json_path=(QUOTE_LOCATION, AUTHOR_LOCATION),
15  )
16  magtag.network.connect()
17  
18  # quote in bold text, with text wrapping
19  magtag.add_text(
20      text_font="Arial-Bold-12.bdf",
21      text_wrap=33,
22      text_maxlen=160,
23      text_position=(10, 15),
24      line_spacing=0.75,
25  )
26  
27  # author in italic text, no wrapping
28  magtag.add_text(
29      text_font="Arial-Italic-12.bdf",
30      text_position=(100, 110),
31  )
32  
33  timestamp = None
34  while True:
35      if not timestamp or (time.monotonic() - timestamp) > 60:  # once every 60 seconds...
36          try:
37              value = magtag.fetch()
38              print("Response is", value)
39          except (ValueError, RuntimeError, ConnectionError, OSError) as e:
40              print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
41          timestamp = time.monotonic()