Aurora Shanty

Code and documentation for the Aurora Shanty.

Raspberry Pi deploy

• Get Raspbian
• System settings
  • Expand filesystem
  • Boot to CLI
  • Enable I2C
• (optional) WiFi setup
• (optional) Mausberry power switch
• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade (can take a while)

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri

/home/pi/.xsessionrc

Start X11VNC

x11vnc -bg -nevershared -forever -tightfilexfer -nopw -display :0

/boot/config.txt Uncomment: hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=16

• sudo apt-get install netatalk git tightvncserver
• curl https://processing.org/download/install-arm.sh | sudo sh
• cd /home/pi && git clone https://github.com/scanlime/fadecandy.git
• cd /home/pi && git clone https://github.com/zzolo/aurora-shanty.git && cd aurora-shanty
• FCServer startup
  • sudo cp ./deploy/fcserver.conf /etc/init.d/fcserver && sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/fcserver
  • sudo /etc/init.d/fcserver start
  • sudo update-rc.d fcserver defaults
• VNC setup. This is needed so Processing thinks there is a screen. How this is setup requires that a user does this and is logged in. Reference
  • Run once to setup password: vncserver :1
• Processing sketch
  • Add to cron: @reboot $HOME/.profile; /home/pi/aurora-shanty/deploy/aurora.sh > /home/pi/aurora.log 2>&1

Notes/links

• FadeCandy Server config docs
• LED curtain example config
• LED curtain processing example
• Processing OPC docs

wget https://github.com/scanlime/fadecandy/archive/fcserver-1.04.zip && unzip fcserver-1.04.zip -d fcserver;
./fcserver/fadecandy-fcserver-1.04/bin/fcserver-osx

./fcserver/fadecandy-fcserver-1.04/bin/fcserver-osx ./fcserver-conf.json