Explorer Phat Dashboard

A dashboard for Explorer PHAT (Explorer HAT) to read and control the
inputs, outputs, analogs and motors remotely.

Requirements

• Raspberry Pi with Explorer PHAT/HAT attached
• Explorer HAT Python library
  installed on Raspberry Pi
• SSH access
  to your Raspberry Pi

Installation

1. Clone the project:

   git clone git@github.com:LowieHuyghe/explorer-phat-dashboard.git

2. Move into the new directory:

   cd explorer-phat-dashboard

3. Setup virtualenv and activate it

4. Install the requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Make a copy of config.example.ini named config.ini

6. Fill in config.ini to match your configuration

Run

python dashboard.py

Note: Make sure your virtualenv is active when running the script.

Troubleshooting

• In case the dashboard has crashed and won’t respond:

  • Find the dashboard- and ssh-process and kill them

  > ps aux | grep dashboard.py
  # Copy the process id
  > kill -9 XXXXXX
  > ps aux | grep ssh
  # Copy the process id of the opened ssh session (if one)
  > kill -9 XXXXXX