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Raspberry Pi LED E-mail Notifier
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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egocks commented Aug 11, 2014

I wrote a version that uses imaplib, since there seems to be a problem with authentication for the Gmail atom feed. https://gist.github.com/egocks/e32f320af67edfbc0619#file-raspi-gmail-imaplib-py

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i am new to Pi 2 ...for this project no need to install anything like "imapclient" ???

please respond

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