Twinkle - Metar Map

Inspired by Philip's Metar Map, this project controls a handfull of LEDs mounted behind a sectional chart.

TODO List

Installation

Twinkle is designed to run on a raspberry pi that has the rpi_ws281x library installed. This assume you are running on an ubuntu distro.

rpi_ws281x library installation

From the raspberry

sudo apt-get install cmake

git clone https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x

cd rpi_ws281x
mkdir build
cd build

cmake -D BUILD_SHARED=OFF -D BUILD_TEST=ON ..

sudo make install

You should now have /usr/local/lib/libws2811.a and headers in /usr/local/include/ws2811. If not, check out the build documentation.

Twinkle

Clone this repo and run make build to see if you go toolchain is hapoy. You might need to install go and more tools.

Then tweak config.yaml

Also check out some other commands:

• make run : fire up Twinkle from source
• make setup : Very opinionated and fragile way to run twinkle via systemd.
• make [enable|disable] : Tell systemd to run twinkle on startup (or not); needs setup to run first
• make [start|stop|status] : Find out how systemd feels about twinkle, start twinkle or stop it