Make your Raspberry Pi speak a greeting when you arrive. It works by routinely checking bluetooth for any registered devices, then speaks a greeting or farewell when the device is rediscovered or lost.
You will need bluez to handle bluetooth and gnustep-gui-runtime to run text-to-speech. Use the below commands to install them.
sudo apt -y install bluez python-bluez
sudo apt -y install gnustep-gui-runtime
- Clone the repo and cd in with
git clone https://github.com/AlexLamson/rpi-greeter && cd rpi-greeter
- Put your device into bluetooth discoverable mode
- Run
python add_user.py
and follow the directions to add your device - Run the greeter in the background with
python greeter.py &