The TO DO list...

Hardware (RasPi 5)

1. Install the operating system

2. Update the software

3. Install the required Python libraries

4. Enable SSH (secure shell) for headless operation.

5. Use secure FTP to transfer history files and the scripts.

The script...

1. Put the pieces together.

2. Pare down unnecessary operations.

This includes limiting the screen print and csv writes to a bare minimum. Right now the printing of the current list was scrapped, output will only be the current game name and column processing. 28 prints and 56 writes... total for all 8 games.

3. Finish experiments with the email on completion function.

The process looks to be possible with the early speed predictions coming out at about 32 days run time for all 28 columns / 8 games.

Will be using a separate output csv for each game so they can be put into play as they finish rather than wait the entire 32 days to get started.

There is no point in moving to another language as all iterations must be done for completeness here, c++ skipping what it deems to be "unnecessary iterations" defeats the purpose.

The 2 main functions are checking for hits by finding the previous draw number index in a 10 item list and comparing it to the next drawn and incrementing a hit counter, and then appending the counter to the current list and finding if it makes the top 10 heap structure... light as I can possibly code it to get the needed functionality.

I have an idea on a run time guess, but no timeframe on the completion of the script... still a work in progress, but it is cool to be setting up the device that will run my magnum opus...