ttleagueterminal

This project will run on a battery powered device (RaspberryPi Zero W) to be able to send game points to a running node.js app acting as server

Dependencies

Some of these packages and system tools are already included in the full raspian distrobution, but i'm always using the lite images

• Git
  • Install via sudo apt-get install git
• Python-Dev
  • Install via sudo apt-get install python-dev
• Python-Pip
  • Install via sudo apt-get install python-pip
• SPI-Py - https://github.com/lthiery/SPI-Py
  • Clone git repository: git clone https://github.com/lthiery/SPI-Py.git
  • Change into the directory cd SPI-Py
  • Install via sudo python setup.py install
  • Make sure you have SPI enabled in your /boot/config.txt
    • dtparam=spi=on
• MFRC522 - https://github.com/mxgxw/MFRC522-python
  • Because i had to patch it, it is included in code
• Python package requirements could be installed via sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
  • socketIO-client
  • evdev
  • adafruit-charlcd

Config

• Clone git repository to /home/pi
• Install dependencies
• Config backend and LCD
  • See options in file config.default.json (needs to be edited and saved as config.json)
  • LCD connection needs to be configured (HD44780 controller compatible)
• To boot into "app" add a line su - pi -c '/home/pi/ttleagueterminal/startup.sh &' into file /etc/rc.local before the exit instruction
  • this command changes into a shell for user pi and starts the terminal