ThermoPi

ThermoPi is a smart thermostat using RPi Zero 2 W

Configuration

• background details on how I debugged this here
• install overlay for touchscreen ads7846 from here
• calibrate touchscreen:

  TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event0 TSLIB_CALIBFILE=/etc/pointercal TSLIB_CONFFILE=/etc/ts.conf ts_calibrate
  

Installation

Create virtual environment using system-site-packages; this ensures we are inheriting RPi.GPIO as well.

python3 -m venv .venv --system-site-packages

In your project's virtual environment

sudo apt install python3-pip python3-distutils-extra python3-wheel python3-setuptools RPi.GPIO

python3 -m pip install wheel
poetry add thermopi

or if using pip directly

python -m pip install thermopi

Usage

• can be started using systemctl
• can be started using python directly

Testing

• run make test to run test and check if installation is done correctly
• after creating your file you can use the plugin as:

python -m thermopi

• install bullseye headless
• install libsdl packages
• add details about compiling SDL2 pygame
• change hostname and user to thermostat@thermopi
• change package name to smart_pi_thermostat or leave it to thermopi
• git clone thermopi
• cd thermopi
• make clean build-install
• add line into /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart
  • DISPLAY=:0.0 python3 -m thermopi.ui.menu.homepage.homepage 2>&1 | tee $HOME/output_pygame_startx.txt_
• sudo reboot