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Raspberry Pi as your host

Raspberry Pi as your host

Owned by Maria Laura Cangiano
Last updated: Aug 05, 2022 by Priya Jakhar
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Download Raspberry Pi Imager software from this link and install on your Windows or Mac OS.

Launch the Raspberry Pi Imager, and click on “CHOOSE OS” button.

From the main menu, choose “Raspberry Pi OS (other)”.

From the list of available OSs, choose the option of “Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)”.

Next, select your external storage device by clicking on “CHOOSE STORAGE”.

Then click on “WRITE” button. Click on “YES” in the pop-up dialogue to start the process.

Once the process is finished, user is prompted to remove the storage device.

 

Put the external storage device in the Raspberry Pi and boot it up. Follow the instructions to setup the Raspberry Pi. Once the setup process is done, launch a terminal window and type in the following command to verify the architecture:

uname -m

Modify the bulk transfer rate configuration file as follows:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Add this at the end of the file right before 'exit 0':

sudo sh -c 'echo 150 > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb'

Save the file and reboot. Make sure of changes by running below in command prompt:

cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb >> 150

Install package by running the command in RPi terminal

sudo apt install autoconf libtool libudev-dev gcc g++ make cmake unzip libxml2-dev

Go to site: Camera Remote SDK | LICENSE AGREEMENT | SONY

Download the SDK by the name:

Extract the contents of the zip in a folder. I have extracted the contents in 'SDK' directory in '/home/bb-pi/'.

In the terminal type in the following commands:

cd SDK mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. cmake --build .

Once the application builds successfully, connect the camera to the RPi using a USB cable and launch the application by

./RemoteCli

 

Download Miniforge using the below link:

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-Linux-aarch64.sh

Run below commands to install it:

cd ~/Downloads bash Miniforge3-Linux-aarch64.sh

 

Create conda env with python 3.9 using below command:

conda create -n bbot python=3.9

Install PyQt5 in raspberry pi using below commands:

sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev qtchooser sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools sudo apt-get install qtdeclarative5-dev

Install PyQt in conda environment:

conda activate bbot conda install -c conda-forge pyqt

Install required packages:

conda install -c conda-forge paho-mqtt conda install pandas conda install -c anaconda openpyxl conda install -c conda-forge python-dotenv

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