aalarm4

Rpi based alarm system with adafruit NFC and LCD

Requirements

Adafruit NFC card read breakout card https://www.adafruit.com/product/364

16x2 caracter LCD https://www.adafruit.com/product/181

I2C backpack https://www.adafruit.com/product/292

Rpi install

Download raspbian jessie lite https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Write image to sd card using linux dd or win32diskimager (windows)

Rpi configuration

Using sudo raspi-config, enable ssh, i2c, spi

Third party

install mpg123

Users

Add your custom user and remove defalt pi user

sudo adduser USER
sudo userdel pi

Then, add USER to required groups

sudo adduser USER sudo
sudo adduser USER gpio
sudo adduser USER spi
sudo adduser USER i2c
sudo adduser USER audio

Install python tools

TODO Some of these may not be required

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-smbus python-pip
sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip python-dev

Create python3 virtualenv

pip install virtualenv
sudo apt-get install python3
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 py3env
source py3env/bin/activate

Install libs in virtualenv

GPIO

pip3 install rpi.gpio

ConfigParser

pip install ConfigParser

Customised CharLCD with backlight managment

clone https://github.com/kemkem/Adafruit_Python_CharLCD.git
cd Adafruit_Python_CharLCD
git checkout i2c_backplate_backlight
python setup.py install

Others required libraries from Adafruit

GPIO

cd Adafruit_Python_GPIO
python setup.py install

PN532

cd Adafruit_Python_PN532
python setup.py install

Install Flask

pip install Flask

Mail sending

Motion

/etc/default/motion start_motion_daemon=yes