otto

Automated Herb Garden

Designed and tested solely on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. Probably easily portable to
similar devices.

TODOs

• Gracefully detect when there’s no i2c controller

Running

From the top-level directory:

ln -s /etc/systemd/system/otto.service /home/pi/otto/otto.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable otto.service
sudo systemctl start otto.service

If it’s the first time running the binary on the machine, better to do:

./src/build_and_run.sh

This takes care of installing dependencies and running everything. Note: it
will fail if the computer is not connected to an i2c controller.

Dependencies

• i2c Support

• virtualenv:

  sudo apt-get install virtualenv

• protoc:

  sudo apt install protobuf-compiler

• i2c-tools:

  sudo apt install i2c-tools

TODO(sam): Description & images