Read this to get started: https://blog.x5ff.xyz/blog/neosegment-pi-api/

Buy here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/maksmakes/neosegment

sudo docker run -d --privileged -p 3000:3000 -v ~/pi-neosegment-api/config.toml:/app/config.toml clma/pi-neosegment-api

Take a look at the config.toml file for the options. For container environments (Kubernetes and such), these options are also available via environment variables! Each variable is prefixed by an N_, other than that the options are named the same as in the toml file.

[http]
port = 4000

becomes

set -x N_HTTP_PORT 4000 (in fish)

Spell 'hello' in random colors every 3 seconds 👍

while true
    set color (random)
    curl -g "http://myhost.com:3000/api/v1/display/write?text=Hello&colors=[$color,$color,$color,$color,$color]&timeout=0"
    sleep 3
end

Only GET is supported.

text    .. what to write. Length shouldn't matter.
colors  .. Color of each letter, so an array of decimal converted hex-colors.
timeout .. If a text exceeds the length of printable chars, when to scroll. Also affects time _before_ something is written.

Configure appropriately in config.toml and whatever message is received will be displayed in a single color and with a 2 second timeout. (For now)

Apache 2.0