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WiFi LED Crypto Ticker

Turn DataPix into a dedicated crypto price display — live price and 24h change for any coin, updating on its own over Wi-Fi. No app, no cloud account, no code.

DataPix WiFi LED ticker panel showing a live BTC price and 24h change
The Crypto preset on the panel — live price and 24h change.

What you need

  • A DataPix, powered on and joined to your Wi-Fi (see Setup).
  • A free CoinGecko API key.

Step by step

  1. Open the interface

    From a browser on the same network, open the device's IP address shown on the panel.

    DataPix interface home menu with Views, WiFi Connection and other settings tiles

  2. New view → Crypto

    Go to Views → New view and pick the Crypto preset.

    The Add a View gallery showing the Crypto preset tile among other view types

  3. Paste your CoinGecko key

    The preset asks for your free API key once, then searches CoinGecko's coin list for you.

    The Crypto preset's setup form with an API key field and coin picker

  4. Search a coin

    Type a coin name or symbol — bitcoin, ethereum, or any coin CoinGecko tracks. The same form also offers one-tap shortcuts for popular coins.

    The Crypto preset's coin field with quick-pick shortcuts for BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, XRP and ADA

  5. Customize and save

    The preset drops in live price, 24h change, and a decorative animated flourish as separate, movable elements — reposition and recolour anything, then Save.

    The view editor showing a Bitcoin price view with symbol, price and 24h change positioned on the panel canvas
This is one preset, not the whole picture — it becomes an ordinary, fully editable view the moment it's added. See Views for every built-in preset, or Features to point DataPix at any other JSON API (a different exchange, your own portfolio tracker, anything that returns JSON).
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