seeds2

A Python application for live tweeting photos of your seeds

Example tweet: 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.