SelfPiBox

PhotoBooth for Party selfies with a Raspberry Pi and RPi Camera written in Python

Prerequisite

sudo apt install python3 python-is-python3 libsdl2-image-2.0-0

On a fresh new Raspberry Pi Os updated & upgraded no package installation is required.

You have to activate Camera Interface running

sudo raspi-config

Just clone the repo in the opt folder :

cd /opt

sudo git clone https://github.com/R-Men/SelfPiBox.git

Navigate into SelfPiBox folder freshly created and launch the script :

cd SelfPiBox

pip install -r requirements.txt

python main

You can use the startup script to launch it at boot.

A screen must be attached to the HDMI output

You will need a button on RPi Pin #26 and if wanted a LED on PIN #13

You can use tightvncserveras a virtual screen. Your screen must have a resolution of 1920x1080.

tightvncserver -geometry 1920x1080

Get the value of echo $DISPLAY on the raspberry (not from ssh)

On SSH type export DISPLAY=<value> and replace with value of echo $DISPLAY

Launch python main.py

You can test the camera by typing :

from picamera import PiCamera
from time import sleep

camera = PiCamera()

camera.start_preview()
sleep(10)
camera.stop_preview()

The camera will show the image for 10 seconds.

hostapd to create a wifi access point.