Raspberry Pi - use blinkt shield for status LEDs

A while ago I bought a Pimoroni blinkt shield. Today I started usint it as a status LED.

First step is to install the library. For me - using archlinuxarm - the "simple" installer from the tutorial doesn't work - so I installed blinkt via pip:

pip install blinkt

Now test if everything works:

import time
import blinkt

blinkt.set_brightness(0.1)
while True:
    for i in range(8):
        blinkt.clear()
        blinkt.set_pixel(i, 0, 255, 0)
        blinkt.show()
        time.sleep(0.5)

And finally a real example - showing the status of a github-action build on the first LED:

import time
import requests
import blinkt

blinkt.set_brightness(0.05)
while True:
    r = requests.get("https://github.com/mlugs/website/workflows/github%20pages/badge.svg")

    # led_num, r, g, b
    led_color = (0, 255, 255, 0)  # yellow

    if r.status_code == 200:
        if "passing" in r.text:
            led_color = (0, 0, 2, 0)
        else:
            led_color = (0, 255, 0, 0)

    blinkt.clear()
    blinkt.set_pixel(*led_color)
    blinkt.show()
    time.sleep(60)

[Unit]
Description=blinkt LED status

[Service]
ExecStart=python /root/blinkt_github_actions.py
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the systemd service with: systemctl enable blinkt-status