Raspberry Pi Device Controller

• This is a project to control devices attached to Raspberry Pi. The entire project consists of Web server running on Python and Controller View created by Qt Quick (QML)

• Python script on Raspberry Pi drives the following devices and provides Web API.

  • Output: LED
  • Output: 3 Color RGB LED
  • Output: Motor with PWM
  • Output: Servo motor
  • Input: Button
  • Input: Rotary Encoder
  • Input: Tap
  • Input: Accelerometer (ADXL345)

• Client controller, which accepts user input and shows device status, created by Qt accesses to the server using Web API with JSON. It can be executed as a PyQt or a normal Qt Application

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Server Side (Raspberry Pi)

Environment

• Python 2.7

Libraries required

• Bottle (source included)
• RPi.GPIO
• i2c-tools
• python-smbus

How to start server

cd Server
python index.py

Controller Side (PC or Raspberry Pi)

Environment

• Qt Quick 2.0 (QML)
• PyQt (if you want)

How to start controller (as PyQt)

python Controller.py &

How to start controller (as QtQuick)

start ControllerComponent qml project from Qt Creator

How to install PyQt

sudo apt-get install qt5-default
sudo apt-get install python-pyqt5
sudo apt-get install python-pyqt5.qtquick