Repository files navigation

A photobooth application for the Raspberry Pi and the Pi Camera Module.

Navigation

• Setup
  • Hardware
  • Software
• Install
  • Download
  • Building from source
• Configuration
• Licensse

The application has been tested and works on the following configuration:

• Raspberry Pi 4B
• Wimaxit M728 7" Touch Screen
• Raspberry Pi Camera Module v3

All three products come with the necesarry pieces to connect them together.

This application has not been tested on other hardware, but I am open to pullrequests adding support for them, or simply letting me know this applicationalso works on a different hardware configuration.

1. Install a new copy ofRaspbery Pi OS Lite (64-bit) on your Raspberry Pi's SD-card
2. For convenience, you can change the font size of the terminal usingsudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
3. Enable auto-login on boot:
   • sudo raspi-config
   • go toSystem Options
   • go toBoot / Auto Login
   • SelectConsole Auutologin
4. Install the photobooth software; eitherbuild it from soure ordownload the latest binary
5. Start photobooth at boot:add the following to the end of ~/.bashrc:

   # Replace this with the path to your config file (or comment it out to# not apply any configuration)export PH_CONFIG=config.yaml# Replace this with the path to the photobooth executable# This line will start the applicationPhotobooth

6. Reboot the pi:reboot

Pre-compiled binaries can be found in thethe latest release.

You can also use this one-liner to download the latest release:

wget \"$( \        curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jomy10/photobooth/releases/latest|        jq -r'.assets[] | select(.name=="Photobooth") | .browser_download_url' \)" -o Photobooth&&    chmod +x Photobooth

The command requiresjq to parse json, which can be downloaded withsudo apt-get install jq

This chapter describes how to compile on the target Raspberry Pi.

# Install dependenciessudo apt-get update&& sudo apt-get upgradesudo apt-get install curlcurl -s https://archive.swiftlang.xyz/install.sh| sudo bashsudo apt-get install swiftlang libcamera-apps libcairo2-dev libjpeg-dev# Get the source codegit clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/jomy10/photoboothcd photobooth# Compile the codeCONFIGURATION=release ./make.sh build# The application is now located at .build/release/Photobooth

ThePH_CONFIG environment variable can be set to point to a config file. Anexample of this file:

# Logs will be written out to this fileloggingPath:"photobooth_log.txt"# Images will be saved in this folderimagePath:"images"# These will be displayed after an image has been takendoneSentences:  -All done!  -Curious to see the result?# Background color of the application#          AARRGGBBbgColor:0xFF00FF00

You can add the following script to your home directory (in this example insave_log.sh):

if [-f photobooth_log.txt ];thenif [-f photobooth_log_prev2.txt ];then                rm photobooth_log_prev2.txtfiif [-f photobooth_log_prev.txt ];then                mv photobooth_log_prev.txt photobooth_log_prev2.txtfi        mv photobooth_log.txt photobooth_log_prev.txtfi

Make it executable:

chmod +x save_log.sh

Then add the following line to cron usingcrontab -e:

@reboot /home/photobooth/save_log.sh

GNU GPL.

Photobooth: Photobooth software for touch screen devices
Copyright (C) 2024 Jonas Everaert

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See theGNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public Licensealong with this program. If not, seehttps://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Dependencies may be licensed differently:

• cairo_jpeg: GNU LGPLv3
• libdrm: MIT
• swift-graphics: MIT
• swift-cairo: MIT
• swift-utils: MIT
• Yams: MIT