raspi_door 0.7.1

Objectives

Here are the list of raspi-door features that are implemented, going to be implemented, and may be implemented.

Raspi-Door Hardware

TODO.

Raspi-Door Software

# (all commands as root *or* preceded with "sudo " *or* you
#  know what you are doing... :-)

# (optional) create a virtualenv for raspi-door
$ virtualenv --prompt '(raspi-door) ' /path/to/virtualenv
$ . /path/to/virtualenv/bin/activate

# install pre-requisite pygame
#   => not needed once issue #59 has been fixed:
#     https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issues/59/pygame-and-pip
# TODO: figure out why this is necessary...
$ wget http://www.pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz
# IFF pygame disappears, there is a cache here:
  $ wget https://github.com/metagriffin/raspi-door/raw/master/cache/pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev \
  libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev \
  libsmpeg-dev libportmidi-dev
$ ln -s ../libv4l1-videodev.h /usr/include/linux/videodev.h
$ easy_install pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz

# install pre-requisite pgu
# TODO: figure out why this is necessary...
$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/pgu/pgu-0.18.zip
# IFF pgu disappears, there is a cache here:
  $ wget https://github.com/metagriffin/raspi-door/raw/master/cache/pgu-0.18.zip
$ easy_install pgu-0.18.zip

$ pip install raspi-door

# configure raspi-door
$ raspi-door --initialize > /etc/raspi-door.conf
$ nano /etc/raspi-door.conf
  # review all of the configuration options... and open a
  # raspi-door issue if anything is "unclear" :-)

Troubleshooting

• "ImportError: No module named pkg_resources"

  If you run into an issue during the install process and pip just doesn’t work anymore, you may need to re-install setuptools. However, you need to do this without using pip or easy_install… so, check https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools for direct installation details, i.e.:

  $ wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | python

Credits

• yuv2rgb: Phil Burgess / Paint Your Dragon for Adafruit Industries

• picamera: Dave Hughes