Raspberry Pi LED E-mail Notifier

raspi-gmail.py

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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