A2-F1 Robot Control System
This is the program to run a robot I'm building. More details as things become developed.
This is designed to run on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Jesse (it can probably be adapted to Wheezy), or be run on a normal host for development purposes.
You'll need Python 3.4, virtualenv, Node.js (ideally either v0.10.29, or have nvm installed), npm, and nginx. Raspbian comes with these pre-installed.
To get started, after cloning the repo, switch to the config directory. Symlink or copy one of the template config files to default.json. (While the Node.js code uses node-config to pick which files to read, the Python code only reads default.json.)
Switch to the etc directory, and run ./setup_libraries.sh. This will load all the dependencies and set up virtualenv and node_modules directories. It will issue some non-fatal warnings on most systems, such as optional dependencies, or tests with syntax errors under Python 3.4. That's ok.
If you want to install the appropriate system config files in /etc, then edit ./setup_host.sh and change the install= line to suit the environment.
To build (and optionally install) the system config files, run ./setup_host.sh.
If you're using systemd, run sudo systemctl start a2-f1.target. You can view the output of the actual daemons using systemctl -l status a2-f1-camdaemon (or a2-f1-cpanel, etc). If you're using upstart, you can start with sudo service a2-f1 start, and view the logs in /var/log/upstart/a2-f1*.