GATE CONTROLLER

This is a very simple flask webapp for monitoring and controlling an IP camera and gate controlled by Raspberry Pi GPIO

Install necessary packages

$ apt update
$ apt upgrade

Install necessary packages

$ apt install build-essential supervisor

Install Python

$ apt-get install python2.7-dev python-setuptools

Install git

$ apt-get install git-core

Generate a new SSH key

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com"

Then add the key from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to GitHub as a deployment key

Test the key by

$ ssh -T git@github.com

Install virtualenv

$ pip install virtualenv

$ apt-get install nginx

$ apt-get install uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python

$ cd /var/www
$ git clone git@github.com:[username]/gate_control.git

Set owner to www-data

$ chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/gate_control

Create folders

$ cd /web/example.com/
$ mkdir logs public_html source

$ cd /var/www
$ virtualenv gate_control_venv

Install deps

$ pip install flask, rpi.GPIO

$ cp ${repo}/resources/nginx/cameras /etc/nginx/sites-available/

Then create a symlink

$ ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com

Then you may need to delete default site

$ rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

$ cp ${repo}/resources/uwsgi/cameras.conf /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/

Then create a symlink

$ ln -s /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/cameras.conf /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/cameras.conf

$ cp ${repo}/resources/supervisord/camera_images.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/
$ supervisorctl reread
$ supervisorctl update

$ service uwsgi restart
$ service nginx restart