JarvusPi

Home automation project using Raspberry Pi's.
Designed to use cloud-based variables in the Adafruit.io platform to manage a host of terminal nodes.

To-Do List

- Experiment with new IFTTT feeds into Jarvus displays
- 
- Incorperate play_speech from https://github.com/mattdy/alarmpi/blob/master/MediaPlayer.py 
    - Festivus: https://learn.adafruit.com/speech-synthesis-on-the-raspberry-pi/speak
- Phillips Hue https://github.com/studioimaginaire/phue
- FontAwesome implementation
- MediaScreen
    - Kodi implementation
    - Bluetooth screen

Wish List

- Idle timer sends back to home
- Install script: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29222269/is-there-a-way-to-have-a-conditional-requirements-txt-file-for-my-python-applica
- Cloud-based variables to unify alarm settings

To-Do Done List

1. [DONE] Store time and alarm_set in a file so a restarted app can pick-up at last condition
    - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18040596/how-to-update-a-variable-in-a-text-file
2. [DONE-ish] Toggle brightness of screen, screen off + restore on touch
3. [DONE] use cron to reboot machine periodically
4. [DONE] Hour, minute minus controls
5. [DONE] Change transitions to slide
6. [DONE] UI/UX basic grasp of Kivy 

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 3 + SD card: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CD5VC92/
• 7" Touch Screen: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0153R2A9I/
• Display case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FZ2RJN8/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HKWAJ6K/
• USB hub: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01285VSCS/
• USB powered speaker:
• USB cables: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZGVMNRQ/

Manual Installation

• Raspberry Pi Image

  • https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
  • If rotating the screen is needed, add lcd_rotate=2 line to /boot/config.txt
  • sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, sudo rpi-update or sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

• Kivy and Things

  • Follow install instructions: https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-rpi.html
    • sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev pkg-config libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev python-setuptools libgstreamer1.0-dev git-core gstreamer1.0-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly} gstreamer1.0-{omx,alsa} python-dev blueman
  • sudo python3 -m pip install Cython
  • sudo python3 -m pip install pygments docutils
  • sudo python3 -m pip install pygame
    • If you're using a Mac to test this: https://pythonhosted.org/pyobjc/
  • sudo python3 -m pip install kivy
  • sudo nano /root/.kivy/config.ini - (after you run a Kivy app)
    • Goto [input] section and set it to:
    • mouse = mouse
    • mtdev_%(name)s = probesysfs,provider=mtdev
    • hid_%(name)s = probesysfs,provider=hidinput

• PyBluez

  • (Troubleshooting Bluetooth)
    • start with Advanced Communications options provided by the Dexter Industries image
    • sudo bluetoothctl
    • agent on
    • default-agent, exit
    • systemctl status bluetooth
    • sudo systemctl start bluetooth
    • sudo service bluetooth start
    • sudo reboot
  • http://karulis.github.io/pybluez/
  • sudo apt-get -y install bluez-hcidump checkinstall libusb-dev libbluetooth-dev
  • sudo python3 -m pip install pybluez

• Adafruit

  • sudo python3 -m pip install Adafruit_IO

• playsound

  • sudo python3 -m pip install playsound

• APScheduler

  • sudo python3 -m pip install apscheduler

• RPI-Backlight

  • https://github.com/linusg/rpi-backlight
  • sudo python3 -m pip install rpi_backlight
  • sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/backlight-permissions.rules
  • Insert the line:
  • SUBSYSTEM=="backlight",RUN+="/bin/chmod 666 /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness /sys/class/backlight/%k/bl_power"

• CEFPython3 --- EXPERIMENAL CHROME

  • https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/blob/master/docs/Build-instructions.md
  • https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/blob/master/docs/Build-instructions.md#requirements
  • ~/cefpython/tools $ sudo python3 build.py 56.0

• Setup Folder

  • git clone http://github.com/dadiletta/JarvusPi

  • touch log_jarvus.log

  • mkdir obj

  • touch obj/profiles.pkl

  • sudo nano private.py <-- paste your private vars

          MAKER_SECRET = ""
          AIO_KEY = ""
          PROFILE1 = ''
          PROFILE2 = ''
          PI_NAME = ''
    

• Auto-Run Jarvus

  • https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/cron.md
  • sudo crontab -e and paste the following:
  • @reboot sudo python3 /home/pi/JarvusPi/jarvus.py (you may need to adjust your path)
  • 0 0 * * * reboot to make sure the script keeps running

Customizing Jarvus

• Load your own Private.py
• Customize your own Adafruit.io feeds
• Setup your IFTTT triggers