USB Copy Station

Turns your Raspberry PI into a copy station.

This also works for Windows and Linux, but the status LEDs will only work with the Raspberry PIs GPIO pins.

Prerequisites

For Windows

Download and install Node.js.

Download and install Yarn.

Install the Windows-Build-Tools:

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

In the project directory run:

yarn install

For Linux

Install Node.js and Yarn:

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get install -y curl software-properties-common

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs npm

sudo npm install --global yarn

For NTFS support run:

sudo apt-get install -y ntfs-3g

In the project directory run:

yarn install

Usage

node index.js [-h] [-p PATH] [-f FOLDER_NAME]

Argument	Description	Default
-h, --help	Show help and exit.	-
-p PATH, --path PATH	The path to the files that are getting copied	./data/
-f FOLDER_NAME, --folder-name FOLDER_NAME	The name of the folder that the files are copied to	data
-s PIN, --success-led-pin PIN	The pin ID of the success LED	17
-P PIN, --progress-led-pin PIN	The pin ID of the progress LED	27
-e PIN, --error-led-pin PIN	The pin ID of the error LED	18

Examples

node index.js --path "./data" --folder-name "data"

node index.js -p "./data" -f "data"

Running with nodemon

yarn dev --path "./data" --folder-name "data"

Autostart with systemd

Create a file /etc/systemd/system/usb-copy.service

[Unit]
Description=USB Copy
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
Environment=
WorkingDirectory=/usb-copy/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node index.js --path "./data" --folder-name "data"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable usb-copy
sudo systemctl start usb-copy