MrFrangipane / frangitron_photobooth

Rewrite of the Raspberry Pi Photobooth

Frangitron Photobooth

Rewrite of the Raspberry Pi Photobooth

Installation

Operating system

• Use HDMI display (unplug touchscreen)
• Install Manjaro (ARM Raspberry XFCE, guide written with 23.02)
  • create default user photobooth, sudoer, with autologin
• Update whole system with sudo pacman -Syu
• Edit /boot/config.txt

console=tty1
display_auto_detect=1

• Add to /boot/cmdline.txt

 fbcon=rotate:2

• Shutdown
• Plug touchscreen, unplug HDMI
• Boot
• Rotate display using GUI All Applications > Display
• Edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf by adding to section touchscreen

Option "TransformationMatrix" "-1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1"

• Disable screensaver and lock screen using GUI All Applications > Screensaver
• Disable screen blanking using GUI All Applications > Power Manager
• Disable check for updates in All Applications > Add/Remove Software > Preferences

GPIO access

• Create group and add user

sudo groupadd gpio
sudo usermod -a -G gpio photobooth

• Create rules files /etc/udev/rules.d/90-gpio.rules with content

KERNEL=="gpiomem", OWNER="root", GROUP="gpio"

Python environment

• Install

sudo pacman -Syu pyside6
sudo pacman -Syu qt6
sudo pacman -Syu python-pip
sudo pacman -Syu python-virtualenv

• Create virtualenv (in ~/)

virtualenv --system-site-packages ~/photobooth-venv
~/photobooth-venv/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

• Install Photobooth

~/photobooth-venv/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/MrFrangipane/frangitron_photobooth.git

Autostart

• Add the following command to startup applications in Settings > Session and Startup

/home/photobooth/photobooth-venv/bin/python -m frangitron_photobooth