FarmBot Software for the Raspberry Pi

The "brains" of Farmbot. Responsible for receiving the commands from users or the farmbot-web-app. It executes them and report back the results to any subscribed user(s).

Technical Stuff

• Written in Ruby.
• Operation scheduling data is stored in SQLite 3.
• Device status info, such as X, Y, Z and calibration data is stored via PStore
• Backups to the cloud provided by Farmbot Web API.
• Messaging happens via MQTT.
• Communicates with Arduino hardware using the farmbot-serial gem

Running in production

bundle install
ruby farmbot.rb

Running on Local

If you're running your own local farmbot web app

FBENV=development ruby farmbot.rb

Installation on Raspberry Pi

Installation on a Raspberry Pi 3 will take about 30 minutes.

Update the RPi

sudo apt-get update

Install Ruby 2.2

This gem requires Ruby 2.2 minimum. Later versions will work fine as well. As of this writing, a Pi is loaded with 1.9.3 by default.

To remove the old version of Ruby that comes with most RPi distributions:

sudo apt-get remove ruby* --purge

To upgrade your ruby version, try this:

gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

This will take about 2 hours a standard Raspberry Pi 2, or about 20 minutes on a Raspberry Pi 3.

Clone, install and run

NOTE: We tag releases when they are stable. The latest version (on master) is not guaranteed to be stable.

See releases to find a stable release.

OPTION A: For less stable "edge" version:

git clone  https://github.com/FarmBot/farmbot-raspberry-pi-controller

OPTION B: For stable release 1.1:

git clone -b 'alpha-1.1' --single-branch  https://github.com/FarmBot/farmbot-raspberry-pi-controller

REQUIRED FOR EITHER: (takes about 10 minutes on an RPi 3)

cd farmbot-raspberry-pi-controller
gem install bundler
bundle install
rake db:setup

Set up the device:

Go to the My Farmbot Website (or your private server) and sign up for a Farmbot account.

Then from within the farmbot-raspberry-pi-controller project directory run:

ruby setup.rb

Report problems:

We can't fix issues we don't know about. If you are having issues with setup, please raise an issue with us. This helps us identify confusing steps, common setup issues and other problems.

Arduino

You will need to flash your Arduino with custom firmware. For instructions on how to do this, see the FarmBot-Arduino github page

Contributors

See full list here.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Farmbot Project

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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