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A Bitcoin Address Monitoring Tool Built With A Raspberry Pi And A Lcd Display

About the project

If you want to keep an eye on some wallets, this is your tool.

Difficulty: Easy

Estimated time: 1 hour

	Raspberry Pi 3	x 1
	Adafruit RGB Negative 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi https://www.adafruit.com/product/1110	x 1
	micro SD card	x 1

	Raspbian
	chirimbolito software https://github.com/facastagnini/python-chirimbolito

Install Raspbian Stretch Lite on the micro SD card. This is beyond the scope of this document, you can find a good guide here
Enable sshd on a headless Raspberry Pi
Install the LCD screen and the micro SD card in the Raspberry Pi
Boot the Raspberry Pi
ssh into the Raspberry Pi and install the bitcoin address monitoring tool

ssh pi@raspbian

password: (the default password is 'raspberry')

pi@raspbian ~ $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential python3 python3-dev python3-smbus python3-pip i2c-tools

pi@raspbian ~ $ sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip

pi@raspbian ~ $ sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G i2c pi

pi@raspbian ~ $ mkdir chirimbolito

pi@raspbian ~ $ virtualenv chirimbolito

pi@raspbian ~ $ cd chirimbolito

pi@raspbian ~/chirimbolito $ source bin/activate

(chirimbolito) pi@raspbian ~/chirimbolito $ pip3 install chirimbolito

(chirimbolito) pi@raspbian ~ $ mkdir ~/.config && test -f ~/.config/chirimbolito.json || curl -sLo ~/.config/chirimbolito.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facastagnini/python-chirimbolito/master/chirimbolito.json
Edit the file ~/.config/chirimbolito.json to configure the bitcoin addresses that you want to monitor.
Start the service

pi@raspbian ~/chirimbolito $ chirimbolito

Thanks for checking out my project!

For up to date build instructions please visit the github repo.