seeds2
=======

seeds2 is a Python application that you can use to keep track of your seeds or plants growing on Twitter. It is a reboot of the [Internet of Seeds project by Pimoroni in 2016](http://blog.pimoroni.com/the-internet-of-seeds/). 

There's a supporting blog post here for background info - http://blog.alexellis.io/iot-growbox/

![Live Tweet](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCTmumnWsAQne4I.jpg:medium)

*Example tweet: [https://twitter.com/alexellisuk_bot/status/875077917902024706](https://twitter.com/alexellisuk_bot/status/875077917902024706)*

### Installation

* Install depedencies

```
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
```

* Update your access keys

Now add your Twitter keys into a config.py file:

```
config = {"ckey": "", "csecret": "", "akey": "", "asecret": "", "working_directory": "./", "image_quality": 35 , "tweet": True}
```

> For testing without Tweeting you can set `tweet` to `False` in the `config.py` file.

* Get the Roboto font from:

https://material.io/guidelines/resources/roboto-noto-fonts.html

* For scheduling the code - use `cron` and this entry:

```
*/10 08-20 * * * /home/pi/seeds2/seed-it.sh
```

That runs once every 10 minutes between 8am and 8pm.

### Docker

If you want to save time you can run the code through Docker. A [Dockerfile](https://github.com/alexellis/seeds2/blob/master/Dockerfile) is included in the repo.

* Building

```
docker build -t alexellis2/seeds2 .
```

* Running:

```
$ docker rm -f seeds2
$ docker run --privileged --name seeds2 -v `pwd`/config.py:/root/seeds2/config.py -ti alexellis2/seeds2
```

If you want to extract the image you can do it like this:

```
$ cd /home/pi
$ docker cp seeds2:/root/seeds2/image.jpg image.jpg
```