This is a small fun project I did when switching from Twitter to Mastodon. It is a minimal Mastodon client with a twist. I hooked a b/w CRT TV to a Raspberry and added a thermal receipt printer (POS-5890). The TV shows the latest toot from the home timeline and the printer creates a continuous flow of paper for all notifications.
PyToDon needs Python3, the PIL image library, python-escpos, Mastodon.py and pygame.
For example (incomplete, you might need to install additional packages):
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pil
pip3 install Mastodon.py pygame
You may need to change the server address in PyToDon.py:
[...]
import pygame
MASTODON_SERVER = "https://mastodon.social"
CHECK_DELAY = 10
[...]
After that you need to register the client ONCE:
python3 mytest.py login
Then you can login using your credentials:
python3 mytest.py login <user> <password>
After that you can simply start the client using:
python3 mytest.py run