PiControl

Control your headless Raspberry Pi with the AdaFruit LCD Plate Built on latest Raspbian (2014-09-09) at time of writing readme (2014-12-16)

PiControl lets you control an internet connected Raspberry Pi (NAS optional) running Raspbian, via the Adafruit 16x2 LCD Plate. The idea was to create a simple hierarchical menu system to provide basic system functionality for a NAS Pi through the use of the LCD and Tactile buttons provided by the Adafruit i2c LCD Plate.

To Install:

1. Open terminal window or SSH into pi.
2. Run the terminal command: "git clone https://github.com/korn101/PiControl"
3. You now have a working copy of PiControl in your /home/pi/PiControl directory, but we're not done yet.
4. Automate the running of the /home/pi/PiControl/PiControl.py script. See here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/rc-local.md

System Functions include:

• Idle Mode (with clock display)
• PiDiag (see crucial hardware specs ie. clock speeds, temp, memory split)
• Wifi Diag (see current Wifi network, check connectivity to router and internet)
• Halt System (perform a safe system halt/shutdown)
• Restart System (perform a safe system restart)
• Run a PiNumberStation in the background. See: https://github.com/korn101/PiNumberStation

New Updates include:

• Check connected HDD ✓
• Settings menu and configuration file support ✓
• PiNumberStation support for broadcast on user-defined frequency ✓
• Integer Dialog Support ✓
• Boolean Dialog Support ✓
• Automatic display dimming after set amount of time ✓

Soon to be functions include:

• Run rpi-update, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade
• Backup contents of selected drive to ExtHDD
• Connect/Disconnect to and from different wifi networks (including password entry dialog and basic keyboard system)
• Live & Continuous temperature 'watching' console
• Yowsup functionality to pass commands over Whatsapp

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Developers Notes:

Install, Dev & Maintenance Instructions

Cloning the repository / Install:

1. Open terminal and cd to home directory. ie. /home/pi/
2. Run "git clone https://github.com/korn101/PiControl" to clone repository to the pi.
3. Project folder is now under /home/pi/PiControl/
4. Enter the project folder with "cd PiControl"
5. Make changes as you wish. Then continue to next section of steps.

To commit changes:

1. Open terminal, cd into /home/pi/PiControl
2. Run "git add PiControl.py", "git add piconf.ini" , etc. To add to commit list.
3. Run "git commit -m """
4. Push the commit to master with: "git push master origin"
5. Done! :) (or use the update.sh automated script!)