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Mock Reader

A fake reader using a TK GUI for development purposes. This target software development which does not happen on the RPi but on another machine - probably in a Python virtual environment.

place-capable: yes

If you mock the GPIO pins, this GUI will show the GPIO devices.

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Note

When using Anaconda, the GUI will look horrible! That's because Anaconda's TK is compiled without FreeType support.

There is a very quick and very dirty fix. Replacing the TK lib in Anaconda's environment with the system libtk. However, this depends on an exact version match of the libtk.

cd /path/to/anaconda3/envs/rpi/lib
mv ./libtk8.6.so ./libtk8.6.so.bak
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtk8.6.so libtk8.6.so

An alternative is to simply use Python's venv module to create a virtual environment. This uses your systems Python version and thus will work with your system libtk. It might not be the RPi's Python version - but that should not matter in most cases.