TinyTicker

Use a Raspberry Pi Zero W and an e-Paper display to show stock & crypto price data.

Easy Networking

Use Comitup to bootstrap the wifi connection seamlessly with no tedious ssh-ing necessary.

A web based configuration dashboard runs on the Pi for on the fly configuration.

A disk image file is provided for near plug and play setup.

You'll need to get yourself a Raspberry Pi and a Waveshare e-Paper display.

Raspberry Pi Zero with Wifi

Preferably one with the headers pre-attached to save yourself the headache of soldering them on yourself.
A compatible Waveshare display 2.13 inch display
TinyTicker supports a few Waveshare displays.
A micro SD card

I'd recommend one with at least 2GB of capacity.

The easiest way to setup the software side, is to use the disk image file.

Download the image file.

Download the tinyticker-image.zip file.
Write the image file to your SD card.

I recommend using Raspberry Pi Imager to write the image file to the SD card. See the tutorial video if needed.
Setup Wifi

On first boot Comitup will start a local TinyTicker wifi hotspot. Connect to it and select your wifi network.
Configure TinyTicker

With wifi working, head on over to http://tinyticker.local to access the configuration dashboard. Make sure you select the correct waveshare e-Paper display model for the screen to work properly.

The provided disk image has ssh enabled and two preconfigured users, one which handles the TinyTicker software and the default pi user.

Username:

pi

Password:

raspberry

Username:

tinyticker

Password:

tinyticker

Note: It is highly recommended to change the default passwords, especially for the pi user.

For the full list of installed packages see the tinyticker.info file.

On startup systemd is used to start the TinyTicker ticker and web dashboard.

              ssh tinyticker@tinyticker.localsystemctl status --user tinytickersystemctl status --user tinyticker-web