About

Scripts and config for a raspberry pi with a camera to monitor

• Temperature via w1 ds18b20 sensors and log to thingspeak
• take a photo and possibly upload to dropbox

(c) 2017 Hrafnkell Eiríksson

Setup

• Set up incrond (if you want to upload to dropbox)
• Set up daemon so raspistill can be run as a daemon from crontab
• add to crontab from the crontabfile
• set up a ramdisk by adding to fstab
• set up a few python3 modules
  • ephem (for calculating if sun is above/below horzon)
  • dropbox (for uploading images)
• Install pagekite (http://pagekite.net) and expose your webserver and ssh (if you want to)
• symlink /var/ramdisk/pic.jpg to /var/www/html/pic.jpg
• symlink the index.html file in this repository to /var/www/html/index.html
• Add to rc.local to turn off the rpi leds that might interfere with long exposure times

echo none > /sys/class/leds/led0/trigger
echo none > /sys/class/leds/led1/trigger
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/led10brightness
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/led1/brightness

• Create a configUpload.py file with the following configuration

access_token='YOURDROPBOXTOKEN'
thingspeakkey='YOURTHINGSPEAKKEY'
obs_lat, obs_lon = 'YOUR.LATITUDE','YOUR.LONGDITUDE'