Merge pull request #3148 from FoamyGuy/fruit_jam_quotes_example

Fruit Jam quotes example

Author: FoamyGuy

Fruit_Jam/Fruit_Jam_Quotes/code.py

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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Tim Cocks for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+"""
+Quotes example originally for PyPortal adapted for Fruit Jam
+"""
+import time
+import board
+from adafruit_fruitjam import FruitJam
+from adafruit_fruitjam.peripherals import request_display_config
+
+request_display_config(320, 240)
+
+# Set up where we'll be fetching data from
+DATA_SOURCE = "https://www.adafruit.com/api/quotes.php"
+QUOTE_LOCATION = [0, 'text']
+AUTHOR_LOCATION = [0, 'author']
+
+# the current working directory (where this file is)
+cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
+fruitjam = FruitJam(url=DATA_SOURCE,
+                    json_path=(QUOTE_LOCATION, AUTHOR_LOCATION),
+                    status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL,
+                    default_bg=cwd+"/quote_background.bmp",
+                    text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Arial-ItalicMT-17.bdf",
+                    text_position=((20, 120),  # quote location
+                                   (5, 200)),  # author location
+                    text_color=(0xFFFFFF,  # quote text color
+                                0x8080FF),  # author text color
+                    text_wrap=(35, # characters to wrap for quote
+                               0),  # no wrap for author
+                    text_maxlen=(180, 30),  # max text size for quote & author
+                    )
+
+# speed up projects with lots of text by preloading the font!
+fruitjam.preload_font()
+
+while True:
+    try:
+        value = fruitjam.fetch()
+        print("Response is", value)
+    except (ValueError, RuntimeError, ConnectionError, OSError) as e:
+        print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
+    time.sleep(60)