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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi Zero, one of the most inexpensive, fully-functional computers available, is a powerful and revolutionary product developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Zero opens up a new world for the makers out there. This book will give you expertise with the Raspberry Pi Zero, providing all the necessary recipes that will get you up and running. In this book, you will learn how to prepare your own circuits rather than buying the expensive add–ons available in the market. We start by showing you how to set up and manage the Pi Zero and then move on to configuring the hardware, running it with Linux, and programming it with Python scripts. Later, we integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero with sensors, motors, and other hardware. You will also get hands-on with interesting projects in media centers, IoT, and more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting a file to run automatically on startup


If you take your Raspberry Pi Zero with you a lot, unplug it at night, or reboot often, you don't want to have to start services and programs manually every single time. Linux has a rich set of tools that control what services start up when the Raspberry Pi does.

Getting ready

We're going to make a copy of our temperature script and add a little bit to it. First, make a copy as a new script, called rpz_startup.sh. We'll use the cp command we learned in an earlier recipe:

pi@rpz14101:~/share/ch3 $ cp rpz_temp.sh rpz_start.sh

How to do it...

  1. This file will have some new variables in it, the format will be slightly different, and we will write it directly to our rpz_startup.log file in /var/log/. The TEMP and DATE variables are the same, so you can save yourself the retyping with the copy. The finished script will look like this:

    #!/bin/bash
    TEMP=`/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp | cut -d "=" -f 2`
    DATE=`date`
    GPU=`/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd get_mem gpu...