TideTracker

Track tides and weather at local beach

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Requirements

Enable SPI

sudo raspi-config

Navigate to Interface-->SPI and enable SPI, then reboot

Install System Dependencies

sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev python3-pip libxslt-dev libopenjp2-7 libtiff5

Install Python Dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Setup systemd service

Create the file at /etc/systemd/system/tidetracker.service with the following contents

[Unit]
Description=tidetracker.service
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/TideTracker/
User=pi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/TideTracker/TideTracker.py
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable systemd service

sudo systemctl enable tidetracker.service

Reboot