Raspberry Sky

The purpose of this code is to turn a Raspberry Pi into an all sky camera.

Software Requirements

• celery
• redis server (this is a bit tricky on a raspberry pi)

Hardware Requirements

• Raspberry Pi
• PiCamera module

A complete list of components can be found on my Dark Matter Sheep blog post.

Installation

• Install supervisor, if you use a system package it should be installed with autorun enabled (although tied to python2.7 for some reason):

sudo apt-get install supervisor
sudo reboot

Configure redis as a service (so it autostarts in the background). The redis docs are really useful:

• When you edit /etc/init.d/redis_6379 change redis-server and redis-cli to /usr/bin/<NAME> respectively

Add configs for celery workers Into /etc/supervisor/conf.d/celery.conf put:

[program:celery]
directory=/home/pi/raspberrysky
command=/usr/local/bin/celery -A tasks worker -l info
stdout_logfile=/home/pi/celeryd.log
stderr_logfile=/home/pi/celeryd.log
autostart=true
autorestart=true
startsecs=10
stopwaitsecs=600