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Finally found a way that works for me to display the live price of Bitcoin. I have tried many many other peoples ideas but this is the only one I could actually get to work!
In the code just change your SSID and password to your Wi-Fi network. Then it should go off and retrieve the price and display it for you.
Also just for interest I am displaying the voltage on pin A0.
// Bitcoin Ticker with smiley face.
// with Voltage Divider (2x 10K resistor)
/*
Resistors are aligned in series.
One end goes to Battery - and also to Arduino GND
The other goes to Battery + and also to Arduino Vin
The middle (connection between two resistors) goes to Arduino A0
*/
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <ArduinoJson.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd = LiquidCrystal_I2C(0x27,16,2);
int previousValue = 0;
int threshold = 1;
int lastKnown = 0;
// WiFi settings
const char* ssid = "Your SSID";
const char* password = "Your Password";
// API server
const char* host = "api.coindesk.com";
void setup() {
lcd.init(); // Initiate the LCD module
lcd.backlight(); // Turn on the backlight
// Serial
Serial.begin(115200);
delay(10);
// We start by connecting to a WiFi network
Serial.println();
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Connecting to ");
Serial.println(ssid);
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
delay(500);
Serial.print(".");
}
Serial.println("");
Serial.println("WiFi connected");
Serial.println("IP address: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
}
void loop() {
// Connect to API
Serial.print("connecting to ");
Serial.println(host);
// Use WiFiClient class to create TCP connections
WiFiClient client;
const int httpPort = 80;
if (!client.connect(host, httpPort)) {
Serial.println("connection failed");
return;
}
// We now create a URI for the request
String url = "/v1/bpi/currentprice.json";
Serial.print("Requesting URL: ");
Serial.println(url);
// This will send the request to the server
client.print(String("GET ") + url + " HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
"Host: " + host + "\r\n" +
"Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
delay(100);
// Read all the lines of the reply from server and print them to Serial
String answer;
while(client.available()){
String line = client.readStringUntil('\r');
answer += line;
}
client.stop();
Serial.println();
Serial.println("closing connection");
// Process answer
Serial.println();
Serial.println("Answer: ");
Serial.println(answer);
// Convert to JSON
String jsonAnswer;
int jsonIndex;
for (int i = 0; i < answer.length(); i++) {
if (answer[i] == '{') {
jsonIndex = i;
break;
}
}
// Get JSON data
jsonAnswer = answer.substring(jsonIndex);
Serial.println();
Serial.println("JSON answer: ");
Serial.println(jsonAnswer);
jsonAnswer.trim();
// Get rate as float
int rateIndex = jsonAnswer.indexOf("rate_float");
String priceString = jsonAnswer.substring(rateIndex + 12, rateIndex + 18);
priceString.trim();
int price = priceString.toFloat();
// Print price
Serial.println();
Serial.println("Bitcoin price: ");
Serial.println(price);
// lcd.begin(16, 2); // Initialize 16x2 LCD Display
lcd.clear();
lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
lcd.print("Bitcoin!!");
lcd.setCursor(11, 0);
lcd.print("=)");
lcd.setCursor(1, 1);
lcd.print("$");
if (price > 5000) {lastKnown = price;} // Is price greater than 5000, save last price.
if (price == 0) {lcd.print(lastKnown);} // Print BTC price
else lcd.print(lastKnown);
// This is to measure the voltage
int sensorValue = analogRead(A0); //read the A0 pin value
float voltage = sensorValue * (3.00 / 1023.00) * 2; //convert the value to a true voltage.
lcd.setCursor(11, 1);
lcd.print(voltage);
lcd.print("v");
// Wait 1 seconds
delay(1000);
}
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