Betabrite Stock Ticker

This app reads stock quotes from the web and outputs a BBXML document that can be sent to a Betabrite sign.

Requirements

• BBXML
• Perl, with module: Finance::Quote

Setup

As always, you need to allocate a TEXT file on the sign to hold the message. See the User's Guide for details. Example:

<alphasign>
  <memoryConfig>
    <textConfig label="K" size="256"/>
  </memoryConfig>
</alphasign>

Running It

The script is bbstock. As arguments, list all of the symbols that you want to fetch. Example:

The output is an XML document.

<alphasign>
  <text label="K">
    <mode display="compressedRotate"/><green/>
    <msg>AAPL <brown/>36.06 <green/>(<dimgreen/>+1.46%<green/>)    </msg>
    <msg>MSFT <brown/>25.30 <green/>(<dimgreen/>+3.48%<green/>)    </msg>
    <msg>YHOO <brown/>34.50 <green/>(<dimgreen/>+0.50%<green/>)    </msg>
    <msg>GOOG <brown/>220.00 <green/>(<dimgreen/>+0.25%<green/>)    </msg>
    <msg>[4/29/2005 4:00pm]</msg>
  </text>
</alphasign>

Send the output to the sign with bbxml:

By default, the output is for TEXT file label "K". You can specify a different file label with the --label option.