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