Pentagon Pizza Alert
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Pentagon Pizza Alert monitor
- Topic
- Miscellaneous
- Includes
- Script
Runs on
- Runs on 32×8 (TC001 & DIY)
- Runs on 52×16 (TC002)
- Does not run on 32×8 with AWTRIX 3 (TC001 & DIY) Made for AWTRIX NG.
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Script description
Shows the live Pentagon Pizza Alert level on your 32x8 matrix.
What it displays:
- Hand-drawn pizza slice icon on the left (always works, no icon download needed)
- Alert level 5 (green, NORMAL) down to 1 (red, CRITICAL)
- Age of the reading, e.g.
5 3'= level 5, updated 3 minutes ago. Turns orange if the data is older than 30 minutes.100m+folds to hours (2h, capped at99h).
Data source: https://pentagonpizzaalert.com/ (hero level text). Polls every 15 minutes with a tiny ranged request, plus 3 quick retries on failure so the first reading doesn't hang.
Setup:
- Open your AWTRIX web interface (device IP or http://awtrixng-xxxxxx.local).
- Go to the Scripts tab, create a new script named
pizza_alert. - Paste the full script and press Save.
- It joins the rotation automatically. No settings, no configuration needed.
- While it shows
...it is still fetching;No dataappears only after 4 failed attempts. Check the Scripts tab log (p:<level>=<status>) to verify polling.
Tested on AWTRIX NG 1.1.1.
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