script-halving.md

panelgroup	name	title	layout	description	imageurl
Bitcoin Panels	Halving Countdown	Halving Countdown Script	default	Percent progress to the next halving period. A new picture is chosen to fill the grid for each whole percent	../images/halving.png

Halving Countdown

This script will prepare an image representing the progress towards the next subsidy halving depicted as a progress bar, and each block mined within the current whole number percent. Since a halving period is 210000 blocks, each whole percent represents 2100 blocks making for a nice layout.

It depends on a bitcoin node.

Script Location

The script is installed at ~/nodeyez/scripts/halving.py.

Configuration

To manage and configure this script, use the nodeyez-config tool

sudo nodeyez-config

To manually configure this script, edit the ~/nodeyez/config/halving.json file

Fields are defined below

field name	description
backgroundColor	The background color of the image expressed as a hexadecimal color specifier. Default #000000
blockclockEnabled	Indicates whether results should be sent to a blockclock. Default false
blockclockAddress	The IP address of the blockclock on your network. Default 21.21.21.21
blockclockPassword	The password for the blockclock on your network, leave blank for no password. Default is unset
gridColor	The base color of the grid representing each block for this period, expressed as a Hexadecimal color specifier. Default #404040
gridDividerFillEnabled	This controls whether the lines between individual grid blocks should be filled as well when blocks are produced. Default true
gridImageEnabled	Indicates whether to render a graphic image into the grid. If enabled, will source images from the ipfsDirectory location, changing to a different image for each whole percent. Default True
gridImageUnminedMode	When gridImageEnabled is True, this controls how unmined blocks should appear. Supported values are: fullcolor, grayscale, dither, dither2. Default grayscale
height	The height, in pixels, to generate the image. Default 320
interval	The amount of time, in seconds, the script should wait before data gathering and image creation again. Default 540
progressColor	The color to fill in blocks and draw the progress bar itself, expressed as a Hexadecimal color specifie. Default #40ff40
textColor	The color of the text expressed as a Hexadecimal color specifier. Default #ffffff
width	The width, in pixels, to generate the image. Default 480

Run Directly

Ensure the virtual environment is activated

source ~/.pyenv/nodeyez/bin/activate

Change to the scripts folder

cd ~/nodeyez/scripts

Run it

python halving.py

Press CTRL+C to stop the process

Run at Startup

To enable the script to run at startup, as the privileged user run the following

sudo systemctl enable nodeyez-halving.service

sudo systemctl start nodeyez-halving.service

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