• Starting on a blank raspian enable SPI via

$ sudo raspi-config

Select “Interfacing Options” and enable SPI

• Clone this repo to your raspberryPI https://github.com/hammerlerobi/makethingstalk

Make sure you have at least node@10 or later installed.

Navigate in the cloned directory and from there navigate in the frontend directory.

install dependencies using npm install

$ npm install 

now build the frontend:

$ npm run build

you should see a build folder now in in the frontend directory.

Navigate in the cloned directory and from there navigate in the backend directory.

install dependencies using npm install

$ npm install 

now you should be good to go run:

$ npm run start

If you run into issues maybe your user has not the correct rights to access the SPI Interface. We will provide a how to for this issue later for now run in elevated shell using sudo.

$ sudo npm run start

Now the application should start and you should be able to navigate to the frontend aswell as the player.

You can find the Player on
http:https://localhost:4000/player/

Videos should be played via OMXPlayer make sure you have the latest version installed

You can find the Backend on
http:https://localhost:4000/

• MIT license
• Copyright 2020 © The guys from makethingstalk.