zeroWtempCode

Code for raspberry pi zero W temperature probe project

Installation

On a clean installation of Rasbian Desktop:

1. Create a SSH Key
2. Add it to GitHub
3. Check out the repositories:

git clone git@github.com:alfalimajuliett/zeroWtempCode.git
git clone git@github.com:alfalimajuliett/QlabTempData.git

4. From https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-temperature-sensor/

• sudo nano /boot/config.txt and add dtoverlay=w1-gpio to the bottom of the file
• Save and exit (ctrl x ; ctrl y)
• sudo reboot
• Wait ...
• sudo modprobe w1-gpio; sudo modprobe w1-therm

5. Run git config --global user.email patt0335@umn.edu; git config --global user.name "Mary"
6. Run cd zeroWtempCode; ./temp_update_code.py and verify that the CSV is updated; cat ../QlabTempData/temp.csv
7. pip install python-crontab
8. Run install_temp_cron=True ./temp_update_code.py to install a cron configuration to run the program every hour