raspi_door 0.7.1

Description:

raspi door 0.7.1

Warning
2014/09/24: this project is not fully functional yet – come back in
a month or so.


Important
IN CASE YOU MISSED THE “WARNING”, THIS PROJECT IS CURRENTLY
“PRE-ALPHA”, WHICH MEANS IT DOES NOT WORK YET.

The raspi-door project comprises the GUI that is run on the
Raspberry PI on the inside of the door so that you can control your
door with awesomeness… or, as close as I can get it there.

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

Current Features

Exterior door bell button and sound support
Interior motion sensor and screen auto-on/off support
Current time display
Current weather display



Upcoming Features

Door lock/unlock control
Bluetooth & WiFi connectivity access control
Activity logging
Door-event calendar integration
Subway service alerts & ETAs



Potential Features

Exterior camera with infrared lighting
Biometrics: face/voice/fingerprint/etc recognition
NFC/RFID support
Remote door lock/unlock with camera feed
Nefarious activity detector! YA MAN!




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