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gregjoeval / KnightcardSignInDevice

A device to store information from Knightcards to replace the physical sign-in clipboard.
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Need redundancy or at some sort of virtualization #18

Open aleccaputo opened 7 years ago

aleccaputo commented 7 years ago

We need 1 of 2 things

  1. If the power goes out, the pi goes down, the script stops...does anyone have the ability to rerun it? We could teach someone I guess. Therefore we could invest in a small UPS (backup battery). Not that it matters if the script goes down at that point because no one would be going into the space, but because we can't be positive that anyone will restart it. -With that said, we should probably be able to have some sort of notifier when the script is down

  2. We install some sort of virtualization software on the pi (for remote access) https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ Then we could teach someone to rerun the script (or we could do it from wherever, although we'd have to VM into a school compute so we are on the same network).

gregjoeval commented 7 years ago

There might be a way to modify the initialization of the raspberry pi to run the script right after being turned on. This would allow someone to just reboot the device in order to fix this issue. Being able to remotely access the device might also just be a nice feature, especially while testing.

aleccaputo commented 7 years ago

http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8734/execute-script-on-start-up