Visual Email Notification

About

A notification and check system for Gmail on Raspberry Pi 3 & Sense HAT. The aim is to use the Sense HAT module as a notifier of the state of your inbox. It works perfectly with Gmail and Inbox by Google. Nevertheless, it is theoretically compatible with all email servers using IMAP without advanced connections (other than Login/Password).

Email Checker for Sense HAT (ECFS) Raspberry Pi 3 requires: Python 2.7 (for Sense HAT & IMAPClient) and Nano (for configuration)

Install

Pull or extract the repository where you want on your Raspberry: https://github.com/wdelenclos/Projet_ECFS

Install required elements

Open your command line and, before launching any script, install the following python libraries and apt:

pip install imapclient
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sense-hat
sudo reboot

Settings

Now you can configure ECFS (currently the comments are in French because I'm French):

sudo nano start.py

Find the following required variables and put your own values in:

HOSTNAME = 'imap.gmail.com' 
USERNAME = 'username'
PASSWORD = 'password' 

Optional

You can also modify some other values, such as if you want show logs in the terminal:

 LOG = True 

Choose the folders to modify:

 MAILBOX = 'Inbox'

Check mail every x seconds:

 MAIL_CHECK_FREQ = 20

Start

python start.py

How does it work?

ECFS has a simple work flow. After the loading icon:

You have two feedbacks, this:

Or:

If you see the red cross, you have a problem - check your config values. If not, perfect, the terminal must show a congratulation message.

At this moment, some possibilities:

In these 3 cases, each x seconds specified in the MAIL_CHECK_FREQ value, a check is performed to confirm that you have the right number of emails.

Enjoy!