LED

This is to control APA102 LED strips from python 3.4+ on a headless Raspberry Pi, wirelessly.

Shopping List

Raspberry Pi 3
- from canakit.com: http://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-3-model-b.html
32GB micro SD card
APA102 300 LED strips (5M strips bought, which have different amperage requirements)
- 5 strips, requiring 18A each
AllPixel: http://maniacallabs.com/allpixel/
Soldering Iron, Solder, Solder Adhesive
Several Male-Male and Female-Female colored wires
Power Supply for AllPixel+LED Strip, at 15A each
- Each power supply will support 3 strips of 100 LEDs
  - Technically need 18A+, however these are non-standard / difficult to find

Download Raspbian Jessie Lite image

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md Load image to Micro SD, Setup SSH
http://blog.smalleycreative.com/linux/setup-a-headless-raspberry-pi-with-raspbian-jessie-on-os-x/ Insert SD card into the Raspberry Pi. Connect via ethernet to your router. - note that if the name isn't immediately obvious, you could brute force in by trying: - ssh pi@[ipaddress] - default user is: pi - default password is: raspberry Enable WIFI
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md

Edit Raspberry Pi config

sudo raspi-config
- Set SPI, SSH and Expand File System
- Reboot Install SSH for LED/Bibliopixel Github repos
https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/
note at the step for "ssh-add", use a lowercase k instead. Install Python3, Pip
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip

From the Bibliopixel directory, run:

sudo python3 setup.py install
sudo pip3 install pyserial --upgrade --ignore-installed
- in case of errors, you might need to reinstall this
- https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/68837/pyserial-error-on-raspberry-3
ls /dev/ttyACM*
- Run this to show all USBs attached. Should show up as "/dev/ttyACM0" or similar

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37458814/how-to-open-remote-files-in-sublime-text-3
Synopsis of above link:
- install rsub on server:
  - sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/rsub \https://raw.github.com/aurora/rmate/master/rmate
  - sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/rsub
- Locally, install the "rsub" package
- On command line connecting to server:
  - ssh -R 52698:localhost:52698 server_user@server_address
    - for example:
      - ssh -R 52698:localhost:52698 pi@10.0.0.154
- Navigate to file and open:
  - rsub file_to_open.txt

Deprecated (unused), but useful info: