roulette.py

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2022 Randall Bohn (dexter)
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
#
# View random products from Adafruit on the PyPortal
from random import randrange
from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal

base_url = "https://adafruit.com/api/product/"
portal = PyPortal(
    url=base_url+"4864",
    json_path=(['product_name'],
        ['date_added'],
        ['product_stock'],
        ['product_id'], ['product_price']),
    text_font="/fonts/Arial-18.pcf",
    text_position=((20,60), (20,120), (20,144), (20,240), (120,240)),
    text_color=(0xAAAAAA, 0xCCCCCC, 0xCCCCCC, 0xFFFF33, 0x33FF33),
    text_wrap=(32, 0, 0, 0, 0),
    default_bg=0x302010
    )

import time
from supervisor import runtime as RT
print("Initializing...")
value = portal.fetch()
last_update = time.monotonic()
print("Ready!")
while True:
    age = time.monotonic() - last_update
    if age > 60:
        try:
            portal.url = base_url + str(randrange(8000))
            print(portal.url)
            value = portal.fetch()
            print(value)
        except (ValueError, RuntimeError) as error:
            print("Alas,", error)
        last_update = time.monotonic()
    if RT.serial_bytes_available: break
    time.sleep(0.1)