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Installing PixyMon on Linux

1. Introduction

The following procedure will walk you through building PixyMon for Linux. This procedure assumes the following:

The Mint-17 distribution of Linux can be downloaded here: http://www.linuxmint.com

Instructions for updating the Pixy firmware are here: Uploading New Firmware

Although this procedure uses Linux Mint-17, it should work with any Linux distribution that uses the Debian package manager (e.g. Ubuntu).

2. Procedure

2.1. Install dependencies for building PixyMon

Start the terminal application:

2.1.1. Install git

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install git

2.1.2. Install libusb-1.0-0-dev

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

2.1.3. Install QT

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools

sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake

sudo apt-get install qt4-default

2.1.4. Install g++ (compiler)

In the terminal window type:

sudo apt-get install g++

2.2. Building PixyMon

2.2.1. Download Pixy source code

In the terminal window type:

git clone https://github.com/charmedlabs/pixy.git

2.2.2. Run the build script

Change directory to the pixy build tools folder and run the build script.

In the terminal window type:

cd pixy/scripts
./build_pixymon_src.sh

2.2.3. Add permissions for Pixy USB interface

In order to communicate with Pixy over USB as a non-root user you must set permissions for Pixy.

To do this copy the 'pixy.rules' file to '/etc/udev/rules.d'

In the terminal window type:

cd ../src/host/linux/
sudo cp pixy.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

2.3. Running PixyMon

2.3.1. Connect Pixy to your Linux system using a USB Mini cable

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2.3.2. Change directory to the PixyMon build folder

In the terminal window type:

cd ../../../build/pixymon/bin/

2.3.3. Run PixyMon

In the terminal window type:

./PixyMon

What's next? Let's teach Pixy an object!