RPICatFeeder
Documentation
My main website contains the inforatiom on building this cat feeder. http://drstrangelove.net/2013/12/raspberry-pi-power-cat-feeder-updates/
Info
Raspberry Pi Cat Feeder Code Version 2.
This code is based on the python-rpi.gpio modules version >=0.5.4-1.
You might have to manually remove the old GPIO library to get this work.
This program also requires adding the following python modules:
- [astral] (https://pythonhosted.org/astral/module.html)
- [pytz] (http://pytz.sourceforge.net)
- [GPIO] (http://sourceforge.net/projects/raspberry-gpio-python/)
Installation
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install astral
sudo pip install pytz
sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio
Running
You can run the main script (Cat-Feeder-Button-pwm.py) in a secreen/byobu or even by adding it to /etc/rc.local to start a boot.
Email setup
To setup email, in the RPICatFeeder directory, create a file named email_settings.py. Then add the following lines to the email_settings.py file:
cat > email_settings.py
email_to = 'youremailATyourdomain'
email_gmail_user = 'gmail or google apps userid'
email_gmail_pwd = 'gmail or google apps password'