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OS setup

Michail Vanis edited this page Jan 31, 2018 · 7 revisions

This is a list of modifications and steps taken to set up Raspbian correctly.

  • Do not use NOOBS, begin with vanilla Raspbian
  • Remove libreoffice and wolfram to conserve space with sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-* and sudo apt-get remove --purge wolfram-engine
  • Compile OpenCV for Jessie
  • Install picamera[array] for Python
  • Install imutils for Python
  • Add empty file called firstboot at pi home directory

Crontab

@reboot python /home/pi/config_file_checker.py >/home/pi/filechecker.log 2>/home/pi/filechecker.err && python /home/pi/CameraServer/NaturewatchCameraServer.py >/home/pi/camserver.log 2>/home/pi/camserver.err &`

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