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ttleagueterminal

This project will run on a battery powered device (RaspberryPi Zero W) to be able to send game points to a running node.js app acting as server

Dependencies

Some of these packages and system tools are already included in the full raspian distrobution, but i'm always using the lite images

Git
- Install via sudo apt-get install git
Python-Dev
- Install via sudo apt-get install python-dev
Python-Pip
- Install via sudo apt-get install python-pip
SPI-Py - https://github.com/lthiery/SPI-Py
- Clone git repository: git clone https://github.com/lthiery/SPI-Py.git
- Change into the directory cd SPI-Py
- Install via sudo python setup.py install
- Make sure you have SPI enabled in your /boot/config.txt
  - dtparam=spi=on
MFRC522 - https://github.com/mxgxw/MFRC522-python
- Because i had to patch it, it is included in code
Python package requirements could be installed via sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
- socketIO-client
- evdev
- adafruit-charlcd

Clone git repository to /home/pi
Install dependencies
Config backend and LCD
- See options in file config.default.json (needs to be edited and saved as config.json)
- LCD connection needs to be configured (HD44780 controller compatible)
To boot into "app" add a line su - pi -c '/home/pi/ttleagueterminal/startup.sh &' into file /etc/rc.local before the exit instruction
- this command changes into a shell for user pi and starts the terminal

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