PiR2 Additional Information

PiR2 Installation Instructions

  1. Install 32-bit or 64-bit Raspberry Pi NOOBS OS on the Raspberry Pi uSD (memory) card.
  2. Plug the PiR2A board into the Raspberry Pi GPIO connector.
  3. Download the PiR2 software from www.MehInCharge.com .
  4. Copy pir2.sh from "myHomePi" directory to /home/pi .
  5. Copy *.* from "myDesktop" to Desktop .
  6. In Preferences-Raspberry Pi Config Interfaces; enable Camera, I2C and Remote GPIO .
  7. In the Terminal window, type "sh pir2.sh" .
  8. The PiR2 system should start up .
  9. Hit "Enter" until it says ".... command" .
  10. Type redLED:1 and hit Enter. The red LED should turn on.
  11. Type redLED:0 and hit Enter. The red LED should turn off.
  12. Type piArea:kitchen (or any other room) and hit Enter.
    This will define the location of this Pi.
  13. Hit Enter to make the PiR2 start operating.
    The PiR2 should start logging its readings.

Current PiR2 Parameters

as of 2020F Jun 11
A prototype board has finally replaced the breadboard version of the PiR2.
No progress has been made on only the following sensor/control values:
emailIn, ambHumid, infraOut, infraIn
This list of parameter values has doubled in the past year.

Perhaps the most notable changes in the above are:
  eSpeak      which gives an audible voice to text messages.
  catBuffer      which adds quasi-copy/paste commands.
  emailOut   which permits PiR2 to send email messages.
  outletA      controls 110v receptacle via "Hey Google" using audioTV device and Google Home.
  Grove      cable usage (from SwitchDoc) for I2C connectivity.

One unexpected difficulty is detmining how to merge a TV video with TV audio
to generate an MP4 video containing both. Synchronization appears to be
the difficulty.
Created : 2020F Jun 08
Updated: 2020F Jun 11

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