arnolddustin / pi-console

.NET Core 2.0 console application that uses the library to interact with the Raspberry Pi.

pi-console

.NET Core 2.0 console application that uses the pi-dotnetcore library to interact with the Raspberry Pi.

getting started

• clone this repostory: git clone https://github.com/arnolddustin/pi-console.git
• configure your Raspberry Pi for running dotnet. full instructions can be found in the pi-dotnet core README.
• build the console application and deploy it to the Raspberry Pi by running the publish script: ./publish.sh. The script builds the dotnetcore 2.0 app for the linux-arm platform then uses rsync to copy the build output to a Pi listening at at the login/host pi@raspberrypi.

running on the pi

• connect to the pi over ssh.
• make the pi command available from anywhere by creating a symbolic link to it: sudo ln -s ~/pi/pi /usr/local/bin
• start the console app by running sudo pi. this will display the set of commands available. running with sudo is required because elevated privileges are required to write to the GPIO system on the Raspberry Pi

wiringPi

Commands in the pi.wiringPi.commands namespace use .NET PInvoke to call the wiringPi library on the RaspberryPi. To install support for these commands:

• Follow the wiringPi installation instructions to install wiringPi
• Verify that wiringPi is installed correctly by running gpio readall
• Open the folder where you cloned the wiringPi git repository and run ./build
• Create shared libraries that will be used by the wiringPi wrapper by running the following commands:
  • cc -shared wiringPi.o -o libwiringPi.so
  • cc -shared wiringPiI2C.o -o libwiringPiI2C.so
  • cc -shared wiringPiSPI.o -o libwiringPiSPI.so

References

• The wiringPi wrapper is from WiringPi.NET. The original library has some sample code and full Visual Studio instructions.