blink.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from subprocess import call
import sys
import urllib2
import hashlib
import struct
import shutil

OLDFILE = '/tmp/newcolor.txt'
NEWFILE = '/tmp/oldcolor.txt'
URL = 'https://philihp.com/color.txt'

call(['touch',OLDFILE])
call(['touch',NEWFILE])

webcolor = urllib2.urlopen(URL)
newfile = open(NEWFILE,'wb')
newfile.write(webcolor.read())
newfile.close()

newmd5 = hashlib.md5(open(NEWFILE).read()).hexdigest()
oldmd5 = hashlib.md5(open(OLDFILE).read()).hexdigest()

if newmd5 == 'd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e':
	sys.exit(0)

if(newmd5 != oldmd5):
	shutil.copy2(NEWFILE, OLDFILE)
	for line in open(NEWFILE).readlines():
		if line.startswith('#'):
			color = line
			print "Blinking ", color
			cr = color[1:3]
			cg = color[3:5]
			cb = color[5:7]
			call( ['/home/philihp/bin/blink1-tool','--rgb','0x'+cr+',0x'+cg+',0x'+cb,'--blink','3'])
			call( ['/home/philihp/bin/blink1-tool','--rgb','0x'+cr+',0x'+cg+',0x'+cb])