Onion Omega Stock Ticker

In this guide, we will use the Omega to retrieve and display stock prices.

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Description

Tutorial Difficulty: Beginner

Time Required: 15 minutes

Required Materials:
• The Omega
• The Expansion Dock
• OLED Expansions

Useful Experience:
• Using the OLED Expansion
• Using Python
• Using Shell Scripts
• Scheduling with Cron

Files

shell_script.txt Shell Script for Stock Ticker plain - 117.00 bytes - 08/02/2016 at 17:19		Download
python_script.py Python Script for Stock Ticker py - 440.00 bytes - 08/02/2016 at 17:19		Download

Components

1 × The Onion Omega
1 × The Expansion Dock
1 × The OLED Expansion

Build Instructions

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Step 1

Setup Parts

Connect your Omega, Expansion Dock, and OLED Expansion as shown.
2
Step 2
Setup Wifi

You will need to setup wifi so that we can install python and fetch stock data from google:
```
wifisetup
```
Follow the instructions and give the Omega access to your wifi network.
3
Step 3
Update and Install Python

We will need to install the full version of Python so that we have access to some libraries necessary for webscraping:
```
opkg update
 opkg install python
```
You may or may not need to clear some space on your Omega for the installation. If you are doing this right out of the box, you should be fine.