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Raspberry Pi LED E-mail Notifier
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cat <<! > raspi-gmail.py | |
#!/usr/bin/env python | |
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO, feedparser, time | |
DEBUG = 1 | |
USERNAME = "username" # just the part before the @ sign, add yours here | |
PASSWORD = "password" | |
NEWMAIL_OFFSET = 1 # my unread messages never goes to zero, yours might | |
MAIL_CHECK_FREQ = 60 # check mail every 60 seconds | |
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) | |
GREEN_LED = 18 | |
RED_LED = 23 | |
GPIO.setup(GREEN_LED, GPIO.OUT) | |
GPIO.setup(RED_LED, GPIO.OUT) | |
while True: | |
newmails = int(feedparser.parse("https://" + USERNAME + ":" + PASSWORD +"@mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom")["feed"]["fullcount"]) | |
if DEBUG: | |
print "You have", newmails, "new emails!" | |
if newmails > NEWMAIL_OFFSET: | |
GPIO.output(GREEN_LED, True) | |
GPIO.output(RED_LED, False) | |
else: | |
GPIO.output(GREEN_LED, False) | |
GPIO.output(RED_LED, True) | |
time.sleep(MAIL_CHECK_FREQ) | |
! |
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i am new to Pi 2 ...for this project no need to install anything like "imapclient" ???
please respond