README for PI Tower Lamp

Controlling a circuit of rgb leds in a lamp to show average color of the windows in the Telefonplan Tower from a webcam image using a RaspberryPI and Python. When a significant change of the average color happens the lamp animates to the new color. Also runs a simulation of lamp color, input colors and enhanced webcam image for testing purposes.

Dependencies

Python 3.5, pillow, pi-blaster, requests, Docker, docker-compose

Tests

Run tests with this command:

cd pi-tower-lamp
python -m unittest tests

Running it

The program can be run in visual mode for developing and debugging and in rgbled mode to control rgb leds.

First time on pi

1. Install pi-blaster (https://github.com/sarfata/pi-blaster or my fork that works with gpio pins 2, 3 and 4 from https://github.com/mik4el/pi-blaster).
2. Make local copy of .env.sample to .env and fill in.
3. docker-compose up -d

For developing:

cd pi-tower-lamp
python main.py --mode visual