cryptolight

Change the colour and intensity of your hue lights based on bitcoin / US dollar prices (BTC/USD(T)).

To run the script:

1. Install the environment from the .yml file
2. Change the IP in the cryptolight_config.ini file to your hub
3. Press the sync button on your hub and run back to your computer (within 30 seconds!)
4. Run the crytolight.py script

Parameters

Following parameters can be changed in the configuration file:

    bridge_ip : str
        provide the IP adress of your Hue bridge
    time_sleep : int
        amount of seconds to sleep between getting the new BTC price and setting new 
        colours/intensities for the lights
    from_curr : int
        index to start collecting prices that are considered 'new' or 'current' 
    to_curr : int
        index to stop collecting prices that are considered 'new' or 'current'
    past_from : int
        index to start collecting prices that are considered 'old' or 'past' 
    past_to : int
        index to stop collecting prices that are considered 'old' or 'past' 
    store_max_prices : int
        maximum number of prices to keep in memory
    max_diff : float
        maximum difference that will be used to set intensity and colour of the lights.
        In addition this value will be used for normalization of the difference between
        current and past prices.
    max_bright : float
        maximum brightness for the Hue light
    base_url : str
        base URL to collect the BTC/USD(T) pairs
    exchanges : list
        what exchanges to collect the BTC/USD(T) pairs
    retries : int
        number of retries for the exchange API
    verbose : boolean
        verbose?