FoodCloud-FoodCam

If you have surplus food to share with the office put the food on the table point the camera at it press the button!

Everyone in the office will automatically get a picture of the food sent to them (via slack, if you don’t have it, get it…slack.com) to say there’s food available!

Set up FoodCam

Headless Setup of Pi

Download latest version of Raspian Jessie Lite from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Install Raspbian Jessie Lite on SD Card with Etcher

Create blank file called 'ssh' and add to boot partition Create file called 'wpa_supplicant.conf' with the network details (like shown below) and add to boot partition OR Turn on the Pi with a pre-loaded OS, preferabably some Raspian flavour With a monitor and keyboard connected, sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to have the network details:

network={
    ssid="NETWORK NAME"
    psk="PASSWORD"
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

1st boot

Locate On Network, default hostname is raspberrypi sudo passwd Follow Instructions to change password

Change raspi-config

Set up picamera sudo raspi-config Follow dialog to enable camera and change hostname to foodcam, enable raspicam and ssh

Clone the github folder to the raspi

cd ~
git clone THE_URL_OF_THIS_REPO
cd FoodCam

Run the setup shell script

sudo sh setup.sh

Update the settings for your surplusfoodcam

Due to the various ways possible to build these surplus food cameras, we have created an ignored file for you to manage your sensitive credentials and specific settings. DO NOT COMMIT SETTINGS TO UNIGNORED FILES!

cd FoodCam
sudo nano settings.py

Change the settings according to the GPIO pins you're using for the buttons, leds and peripherals Specify the integration details used to talk to your communication systems

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Contributions

Please feel free to get in contact twitter.com/surplusfoodcam Submit issues on github or pull requests directly to the repo. Please ensure all code is of high quality and robust so that errors etc can be managed gracefully.

Older setup, for usb cameras for example:

Update Image, Install motion

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Make some coffee - takes a bit of time! sudo apt-get install motion

Set motion to run at boot

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

place code before exit=0:

    printf "**************************"
    printf "STARTING FOODCLOUD FOODCAM"
    printf "**************************"
    sudo motion &
    sudo sh /home/pi/button.sh &

and update motion

sudo nano /etc/default/motion
#set to no

Update motion.conf

sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf
daemon on
width 1024
height 576
output_pictures off
ffmpeg_output_movies off
target_dir /home/pi/motion
stream motion on
stream_localhost off