WiggleCamera

The WiggleBin recording service for taking pictures.

Prepare Raspberry PI

Camera

Install picamera2 - https://github.com/raspberrypi/picamera2.

Set package venv to have access to system packages

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages .venv

Light

In /boot/firmware/config.txt add the following:

dtparam=spi=on
enable_uart=1

Reboot the Raspberry Pi via terminal

sudo reboot

Installation

pip3 install wiggle-camera

CLI

wiggle-camera -h

Prepare Raspberry PI

sudo apt-get install libcap-dev

Enable recording service

In the terminal run wiggle-camera-install. This will install and start a service which runs wiggle-camera --record to take pictures every couple of seconds.

wiggle-camera-install

Services

You can check the status with:

systemctl --user status wiggle-camera.service

To stop the service run:

systemctl --user stop wiggle-camera.service

To start the service run:

systemctl --user start wiggle-camera.service

Installation for development

Updating packages on Raspberry Pi

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Installing package

pip3 install -e .

For installation without dev dependencies

pip install --no-dev -r requirements.txt

Publishing to PyPi

To build your package, you'll need to install the build module. You can do this with pip:

pip install --upgrade build

Then, you can build your package with the following command:

python -m build

To publish your package to PyPI, you'll need to install the twine module:

pip install --upgrade twine

Then, you can use twine to upload your distributions to PyPI:

twine upload -u __token__ -p your_token_here dist/*