Installing SpreadPi on your Raspberry Pi
Posted: 23 Mar 2014, 23:38
This post will become the canonical forum post for SpreadPi installation. For now, it's a collection of links to help people get started. Please post your experiences, advice, and links here so I can flesh this out into an awesome post suitable for anyone to install SpreadPi and get up and running.
The SpreadPi wiki on GitHub is here: https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/wiki -if you're on linux, it's sufficient instruction to get the image installed on the pi. The latest image should be here: http://buildbot.diybookscanner.org/nigh ... est.img.7z (updated as per Johannes' note below - 8/21/14)
You'll also need to install CHDK on your cameras. At this time, only Canon Powershot A1400 and A2200 cameras are fully supported. I use STICK to install CHDK with a bare minimum of fuss. http://zenoshrdlu.com/stick/stick.html
Drop by #diybookscanner on IRC once you have those two tasks complete (installed image on RasPi, CHDK installed on both cameras) and we'll help you finish the job.
I will be continuously updating this post with new information and developing it into a complete tutorial. Keep in mind that SpreadPi is not production ready right now and needs some development and documentation work.
We're particularly interested in your contributions in three areas:
1. Testing and bug reports (please put issues here: https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/issues or make detailed reports in this thread.
2. We need help with documentation. Editing the Wiki here: https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/wiki or helping me flesh out this post would be great.
3. We need help extending SpreadPi to support Gphoto2. This will allow us to use it with more professional cameras and DSLRs. jbaiter has posted information on the best way to do that here. If you're good at writing Python, please consider helping out with this very important effort.
The SpreadPi wiki on GitHub is here: https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/wiki -if you're on linux, it's sufficient instruction to get the image installed on the pi. The latest image should be here: http://buildbot.diybookscanner.org/nigh ... est.img.7z (updated as per Johannes' note below - 8/21/14)
You'll also need to install CHDK on your cameras. At this time, only Canon Powershot A1400 and A2200 cameras are fully supported. I use STICK to install CHDK with a bare minimum of fuss. http://zenoshrdlu.com/stick/stick.html
Drop by #diybookscanner on IRC once you have those two tasks complete (installed image on RasPi, CHDK installed on both cameras) and we'll help you finish the job.
I will be continuously updating this post with new information and developing it into a complete tutorial. Keep in mind that SpreadPi is not production ready right now and needs some development and documentation work.
We're particularly interested in your contributions in three areas:
1. Testing and bug reports (please put issues here: https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/issues or make detailed reports in this thread.
2. We need help with documentation. Editing the Wiki here: https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/wiki or helping me flesh out this post would be great.
3. We need help extending SpreadPi to support Gphoto2. This will allow us to use it with more professional cameras and DSLRs. jbaiter has posted information on the best way to do that here. If you're good at writing Python, please consider helping out with this very important effort.