📺 Kraken Trading Bot — 24/7 YouTube Live Stream

A Raspberry Pi-powered 24/7 livestream of a live Kraken crypto trading bot — no OBS, no GUI, just ffmpeg, bash, and Python.

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🎯 What is this?

This repo powers a live YouTube stream that shows a Kraken algorithmic trading bot running in real time on a Raspberry Pi. Every 2 minutes the stream pulls fresh data directly from the Kraken API and renders it as a 1280×720 video overlay — balance, positions, trades, top movers, and a scrolling crypto news ticker.

Why this exists: Transparency. The bot trades real money and everything is visible live.

🔴 Watch the live stream → youtube.com/@TheEfficientDev

🤖 See the trading bot that powers it → github.com/irgendwasmitfelix/TradingBot

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🖥️ Stream Layout

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ KRAKEN BOT - LIVE LOG STREAM              BALANCES          │
│ 2026-04-04 09:00:00                       EUR  : 278.54 EUR │
│ Balance: 319.56 EUR                       ETH  : 0.02 (41€) │
│                                           TOTAL: 319.56 EUR │
│ LAST TRADES:                                                 │
│   sell 0.22 soleur                        TOP MOVERS 24H    │
│ ----------                                BTC   +2.41%      │
│ 09:00:01 ETH:HOLD SOL:HOLD ADA:HOLD...   ETH   -1.13%      │
│ 08:59:01 ...                              SOL   +4.20%      │
│                                                              │
│                                           OPEN POSITIONS     │
│                                           ETH: 41.02 EUR    │
│                                                              │
│ ── CoinDesk: Bitcoin hits new ATH ── Cointelegraph: ... ──  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Updates every 2 minutes. Runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi.

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⚙️ Architecture

Component	Role
stream.sh	ffmpeg — renders text overlay onto black canvas, streams via RTMP to YouTube
update_overlay.sh	Main data loop — writes to /tmp/youtube_stream/*.txt every 2 min
get_kraken_balance.py	Live portfolio balances from Kraken API
get_recent_trades.py	Last 3 executed trades from Kraken API
get_top_movers.py	24h price change for major pairs
fetch_news.sh	Hourly crypto news from RSS feeds (CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, etc.)
youtube-stream.service	systemd — auto-restarts stream on crash or reboot
youtube-overlay.service	systemd — runs overlay data loop continuously
fetch-news.timer	systemd timer — triggers news fetch every hour

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🚀 Setup

1. Clone

git clone https://github.com/irgendwasmitfelix/tedstream.git
cd tedstream

2. Configure

cp .env.example .env
# Fill in your Kraken API key and YouTube stream key

3. Python dependencies

python3 -m venv venv
venv/bin/pip install krakenex python-dotenv toml

4. Install services

sudo cp youtube-stream.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now youtube-stream
sudo systemctl enable --now youtube-overlay
sudo systemctl enable --now fetch-news.timer

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🛠️ Service Commands

sudo systemctl status youtube-stream      # Check stream
sudo systemctl restart youtube-overlay    # Restart data updater
sudo journalctl -u youtube-stream -f      # Live stream logs
sudo journalctl -u youtube-overlay -f     # Live overlay logs

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🔒 Security

• .env is in .gitignore — never committed
• Use Kraken API keys with read-only permissions for display only
• Stream key = password — keep it private

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🧱 Tech Stack

ffmpeg · bash · Python 3 · krakenex · systemd · Raspberry Pi

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👤 Author

Felix — @irgendwasmitfelix

🌐 irgendwasmitfelix.github.io · 📺 youtube.com/@TheEfficientDev · 🤖 TradingBot Repo

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