batterydie / dogpushbuttons

Communication Pushbuttons for Dog

DogPushbuttons

Welcome to Dog Pushbutton from Capstone Fall 2021 Team. This is repository contains designed piece of software for Dog pushbuttons.

Features

• Receive command from pushbutton though Raspberry Pi GPIO
• Send alert to mobile and computer via Pushover
• Play sound though Raspberry Pi output headphone port

Pushover on iOS and watchOS

Team

Client: Professor Karen Beiter

Lead Technician: Sahand Nowshiravani

Assistant Technician: Luca Jones

Diagram

Setup

1. Update Raspberry Pi OS and Python

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

2. Install Pushover for Python, gpiozero and PyGame modules from Python package manager:

python -m pip install -U python-pushover gpiozero pygame

3. To create startup in GUI. Add line on /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart:

@lxterminal -e /home/pi/DogPushbuttons-main/startup.sh

If you preferred startup in headless or commandline intead of GUI: Click here.

4. Sign up Pushover and create application for API token and User token.

5. Download zip of this repo for Raspberry Pi:

6. Edit the script with new API token and User token. Example:

client = Client("us7vsksv12zazdf6hwu2dt8a4wy743f", api_token="afdsfsdfwzxczt1426xjnp1waj4")

Manually run the script

On Raspberry Pi with pushbutton switches

python main_pi.py

On PC with keyboard

python main_pc.py

Troubleshooting

If you got Pygame error such as "No Mixer module found". Try this:

sudo apt-get install git curl libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-2.0-0 libsdl2-2.0-0