pisurvl 0.0.8

Installing OpenCV

Currently there is no easy way to install OpenCV 3 on Linux. The following commands install all the necessary dependencies to build OpenCV 3:

sudo apt install build-essential cmake git pkg-config
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev
sudo apt install libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libjasper-dev libdc1394-22-dev
sudo apt install libatlas-base-dev gfortran liblapacke-dev
sudo apt install python3 python3-dev python3-setuptools
sudo easy_install3 pip

The following command installs the latest version of Numpy. The installation may take a while to complete.

sudo pip3 install numpy

The following commands download and compile OpenCV 3:

mkdir build-opencv && cd build-opencv
git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git
git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib.git
cd opencv_contrib && git checkout 3.2.0 && cd ..
cd opencv && git checkout 3.2.0
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
  -D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=`pwd`/../../opencv_contrib/modules \
  ..
make -j4

Then install OpenCV:

sudo make install

Installing PiSurvl

sudo pip3 install --upgrade pisurvl
git clone https://github.com/betabandido/pisurvl.git
sudo cp pisurvl/init/pisurvl.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl enable pisurvl.service

Configuring PiSurvl

Create a settings file based on the provided template:

mkdir -p ~/.pisurvl
cp pisurvl/template-settings.yaml ~/.pisurvl/settings.yaml

Fill in the fields from and to in the notifications section.

Use Google API Manager to generate some client credentials and download the client_secrets.json file. Then move the file into the PiSurvl configuration folder:

mv client_secrets.json ~/.pisurvl

Execute pisurvl-server to authorize PiSurvl to access Google Drive.

Running PiSurvl

Use systemctl to start the service:

sudo systemctl start pisurvl.service