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Raspberry Pi 3 Pip Install Editable Mode Observations #270

Open kb1lqc opened 6 years ago

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Summary

I'm installing faraday software on a Raspberry Pi 3 from github sources in editable mode i.e. pip install -e .. This issue ticket will collect some of my observations and nuances as we explore creating base stations with Faraday.

Problem Explanation

PRetty much all stated in the summary.

Environment

Software

Faraday-Software, starting with https://github.com/kb1lqc/Faraday-Software/commit/83ae953c7e2df8de302d937b9ff86e3ffd47e630 but also using Master at times.
Raspbian OS

Hardware

-Faraday Rev D1

Raspberry PI Model 3

Supporting Information

This is a handy spot to post any screenshots or file outputs in order to better support this issue. We want to keep the top of the ticket clutter-free as possible.

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

faraday-proxy and similar commands were NOT installed even when no errors were observed with a pip install -e . command. I had to run the command with sudo to get it to actually install.
faraday-proxy --init-config results in error:

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

faraday-proxy --init-config failed because I was not in the project root directory. I remember this being an issue we've known about with editable installs. You cannot run the software outside root.

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Needed to run sudo faraday-proxy --start with a properly configured Proxy to get /dev/ttyUSB0 to be connected to

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Since I'm using my latest #119 'issue119' branch I have not yet (TODO) added aprslib to the requirements file for python pip.

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Interesting, when starting faraday-aprs connection was refuse to telemetry...

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Solved the /stations telemetry connection issue by killing the telemetry program with sudo kill -9 <pid> and then starting it up in root with sudo faraday-telemetry --start.

However I get another error now.

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

OK it looks like the SQlite database is locked... therefore no data is sent from telemetry and the aprs program will timeout:

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Hmm this could be a big problem for Raspberry Pi. Googling suggests it could be a speed issue and we'd need to move to mysql or similar. I'm not sure, this seems ridiculous that it wouldn't work...

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Just noticed that I needed to install with --force on latest Raspbian!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39280326/python-entry-point-console-scripts-not-found

kb1lqc commented 6 years ago

Also noting that on the RPI using a fast SD card makes all the difference. Just started using a level 10 SD card and the RPI is snappy compared to my old level 4 card!