Corona-display

To keep a eye on the current Corona-Virus numbers I created this Programm wich displays the current stats to the Display.

Datasource

For data I use this Website.

To extract the data I use BeautifulSoup.

Make it work

To print the numbers to the Terminal simply run the fetch.py file.

To show all Corona-cases to the Display run display.py.

To change the location, you ned to adjust the url_c = "YourCountryLink". The Link you can find here. To show the correct countrycode adjust the CC = "Your countrycode" as you wish.

# Insert your URL here
url_c = "https://corona.help/country/switzerland"
# Your Countrycode
cc = "CH"

Wiring

Detailed Instructions here: Adafruit

• Connect Pi 5V power to the power rail of the breadboard. From the power rail connect one outer lead of the potentiometer, LCD pin 2 (VDD), and LCD pin 15 (LED+).
• Connect Pi ground to the ground rail of the breadboard. From the ground rail connect the other outer lead of the potentiometer, LCD pin 1 (VSS), and LCD pin 5 (R/W).
• Connect the middle lead of the potentiometer to LCD pin 3 (V0/contrast).
• Connect Pi pin 27 (or 21 on older revision Pi's) to LCD pin 4 (RS).
• Connect Pi pin 22 to LCD pin 6 (E/clock enable).
• Connect Pi pin 25 to LCD pin 11 (DB4).
• Connect Pi pin 24 to LCD pin 12 (DB5).
• Connect Pi pin 23 to LCD pin 13 (DB6).
• Connect Pi pin 18 to LCD pin 14 (DB7).
• Connect Pi pin 4 to LCD pin 16 (-R/red).
• Connect Pi pin 17 to LCD pin 17 (-G/green).
• Connect Pi pin 7 / CE1 to LCD pin 18 (-B/blue).

Setup

Material

You need the Folowing Material

• Any kind of a Raspberry-Pi with GPIO-Pins.
• I used this kind of LCD-Display
• Jumper Cables, Male - Male, Male - Female, Female - Female like This
• A Breadboard like This

Moast of the things you allso can get on Aliexpress

Install

Fetch current version of GitHub.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/julianbruegger/corona-display.git

cd ~/corona-display

To setup the Display run:

sudo chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh

This Installs all the dependencies.

To start the Program just run:

python3 display.py

Old Version

The first version of this with an other datasource is linked Adafruit