Daily SunRise Catcher

Takes many pictures for you at sunrise, capturing the most colorful.

Bedside Display

Morning Email

Flashing RaspberriPi Hard Disk / Install Required Software (Using Ubuntu Linux)

Download "RASPBIAN JESSIE LITE" https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Create your new hard disk for DashboardPI

Insert the microSD to your computer via USB adapter and create the disk image using the dd command

Locate your inserted microSD card via the df -h command, unmount it and create the disk image with the disk copy dd command

$ df -h /dev/sdb1 7.4G 32K 7.4G 1% /media/XXX/1234-5678

$ umount /dev/sdb1

Caution: be sure the command is completely accurate, you can damage other disks with this command

if=location of RASPBIAN JESSIE LITE image file of=location of your microSD card

$ sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/sdb (note: in this case, it's /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1 was an existing factory partition on the microSD)

Setting up your RaspberriPi

Insert your new microSD card to the raspberrypi and power it on with a monitor connected to the HDMI port

user: pi pass: raspberry

Change your account password for security

sudo passwd pi

Enable RaspberriPi Advanced Options

sudo raspi-config

Choose: 1 Expand File System

6 Enable Camera

9 Advanced Options

A2 Hostname change it to "SunRise"

A4 SSH Enable SSH Server

A7 I2C Enable i2c interface

Enable the English/US Keyboard

sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard

Change the following line: XKBLAYOUT="us"

Reboot PI for Keyboard layout changes / file system resizing to take effect

$ sudo shutdown -r now

Auto-Connect to your WiFi

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Add the following lines to have your raspberrypi automatically connect to your home WiFi (if your wireless network is named "linksys" for example, in the following example)

network={
   ssid="linksys"
   psk="WIRELESS PASSWORD HERE"
}

Reboot PI to connect to WiFi network

$ sudo shutdown -r now

Now that your PI is finally on the local network, you can login remotely to it via SSH. But first you need to get the IP address it currently has.

$ ifconfig Look for "inet addr: 192.168.XXX.XXX" in the following command's output for your PI's IP Address

Go to another machine and login to your raspberrypi via ssh

$ ssh pi@192.168.XXX.XXX

Start Installing required packages

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

$ sudo apt-get install vim git python-smbus i2c-tools python-imaging python-smbus build-essential python-dev rpi.gpio python3 python3-pip libi2c-dev python-picamera python-opencv

Update local timezone settings

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

select your timezone using the interface

Setup the simple directory l command [optional]

$ vi ~/.bashrc

add the following line:

$ alias l='ls -lh'

$ source ~/.bashrc

Fix VIM default syntax highlighting [optional]

$ sudo vi /etc/vim/vimrc

uncomment the following line:

syntax on

Clone SunRise repository

$ cd ~

$ https://github.com/khinds10/SunRiseCatcher.git

Install the SSMTP mail program to gmail your sunrise pictures

$ sudo apt-get update && apt-get install ssmtp

$ sudo apt-get install sharutils

Edit the SSMTP config

$ sudo vi /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

comment out: mailhub=mail comment out: FromLineOverride=YES

Add the following lines to the end of the file

AuthUser=your-gmail-address@gmail.com AuthPass=YOUR GMAIL PASSWORD FromLineOverride=YES mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 UseSTARTTLS=YES

Test emailing to yourself using the installed command

$ echo "This is a test" | mail -s "Test" your-gmail-address@gmail.com

Supplies Needed

Digole 1.8" Serial:UART/I2C/SPI True Color TFT LCD 160x128 Display Module for Arduino/PIC/AVR/PI

RaspberriPi Zero (W Model w/ built in wireless)

Build and wire the device

Prepare the Digole Display for i2C

On the back of the Digole Display, solder the jumper to assign the display to use the i2c protocol

Digole Display

Connect the display to the RPi as follows using the below diagram

GND -> GND

DATA -> SDA

CLK -> SCL

VCC -> 3V

Print the Project Enclosure

Using a 3D printer print the enclosure files included in the 'enclosure/' folder. .x3g files are MakerBot compatible. You can also use the .stl and .blend (Blender Program) files to edit and create your own improvements to the design.

Assembly

Put the camera and the pizero in the case, attach the front panel to cover any marks from the printing process

Glue the display to the front panel of the display box and put the wiring through the back hole

Mount the display in an eastern facing window

Change your settings.py to match your personal preferences

settings.py

emailAddress = 'your-email@gmail.com'

weatherAPIURL = 'https://api.forecast.io/forecast/' weatherAPIKey = 'YOUR FORECAST.IO KEY HERE'

numberOfSunriseCaptures = 15 timeToCaptureMinutes = 30

latitude = 42.4152778 longitude = -71.1569444

Run Daily at 4am (via crontab)

Add the following line to your PI crontab to run the capture program starting at 4am

$ crontab -e 0 4 * * * python /home/pi/SunRiseCatcher/capture.py > /home/pi/SunRiseCatcher/capture.out

khinds10/SunRiseCatcher