{"id":41333,"date":"2026-07-02T22:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/?p=41333"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:38:57","slug":"quick-post-8-update-to-multi-function-display-using-pyportal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/41333\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Post #8: Update to Multi-Function Display Using PyPortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_630\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191112_113519.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191112_113519-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191112_113519-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191112_113519-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191112_113519.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191112_113519-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The S&amp;P 500 value displayed on the PyPortal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>About 7 years ago, I got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/product\/4116\">PyPortal<\/a> and used it to cycle through and display 3-5 types of information. Over time, I sometimes varied the information (it had a COVID display during the worst of COVID, now replaced with pollen counts). And as API&#8217;s for the information came and went, I made other changes. But it still used the original, now ancient, version of <a href=\"https:\/\/circuitpython.org\/\">Circuit Python<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with accommodating yet more API changes, I used Claude Code to help me update the software to be fully compatible with the newest version of Circuit Python. The update code is now on GitHub:https:\/\/github.com\/ViennaMike\/Multi-Function-PyPortal-Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 7 years ago, I got a PyPortal and used it to cycle through and display 3-5 types of information. Over time, I sometimes varied the information (it had a COVID display during the worst of COVID, now replaced with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/41333\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,81,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41334,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/revisions\/41334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}