"pi" is no longer the standard user name on Raspberry PIs

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"pi" is no longer the standard user name on Raspberry PIs #133

Open askpatrickw opened 1 year ago

askpatrickw commented 1 year ago

Lots of the code assumes /home/pi is the path and pi is user. It is no longer the given that "pi" is the user name everyone is using.

Some alternative approaches to take:

.sh: use "~" or $HOME
.py: use os.getenv('HOME')

I am not sure if those will also work when running as a service.