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A Bitcoin address monitoring tool built with a Raspberry Pi and a LCD display

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Chirimbolito

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A Bitcoin address monitoring tool built with a Raspberry Pi and a LCD display

You will need

  • a Raspberry Pi

  • one micro SD card

  • the LCD screen, [Adafruit RGB Negative 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1110)

  • one or more bitcoin address to monitor

How to build it

  • Install Raspbian Stretch Lite on the micro SD card. This is beyond the scope of this document, you can find a good guide [here](https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/).

  • [Enable sshd on a headless Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/)

  • 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

    WIP ssh pi@raspbian password: (the default password is ‘raspberry’) raspbian$ mkdir chirimbolito raspbian$ virtualenv chirimbolito raspbian$ cd chirimbolito raspbian$ source bin/activate raspbian$ pip install chirimbolito

  • Edit the file configuration.json to configure the bitcoin addresses that you want to monitor.

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