Introduction: The Bitcoin Watcher
We already saw in the instructabe "Scroll a Message on a LED Matrix" how to get the up-to-date Bitcoin value through the paymium API.
We'll see here how to go a step further, and create alerts.
Step 1: Get the Bitcoin Value
The paymium API proposes to get the Bitcoin value through the command
https://paymium.com/api/v1/data/eur/ticker
It results in the string :
{"high":371.99,"low":347.3,"volume":132.34887801,"bid":360.0,"ask":363.45,"midpoint":361.725,"vwap":356.8826159,"at":1457231721,"price":360.97,"open":368.99,"variation":-2.1735,"currency":"EUR","trade_id":"379f16ea-372b-4088-86dc-fd61e6e11136","size":0.00013851}
The interesting part here is ask, that gives the last known Bitcoin value. It will be stored in msg.payload.ask.
Step 2: Display the Value
In order to display the value, we just have to put the msg.payload.ask value in a string stored in msg.payload :
msg.payload=(msg.payload.ask+"€");
Step 3: When to Display?
We can decide when to display the Bitcoin value on the LED panel through the Inject node. In this example, we decide to display the value every 5 minutes.
Step 4: Create Alerts and Notifications
What is interesting with Bitcoin is certainly to create alerts and notifications. We can imagine for example to play a sound, to send a mail or a SMS, but there are plenty of different ways to notify.
Let's take an example: we'll here send a sms if the running value goes above 400 euros, and display the value with different colors.
We first test the value with the following function:
if (msg.payload.ask >= 400) {
return [ msg, null ]; } else { return [ null, msg ]; }
And we launch the two different actions depending on the result of the test.
If condition is verified, we write the value in green, and send a sms with the value, and if not, we display the value in red.
Step 5: Learn More!
Learn how to link things together with TimeSquAir (http://TimeSquAir.io) and IBM's Node-RED (http://nodered.org)
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