Ari

What is it?

Ari is a controlling system for animations on a LED wall, specifically developed to manage the LED wall in "Bodegaen" of the student society in Tronheim, Norway.

Hopefully, it may be possible to use the system for similar installations, like the one at the Department of Computer and Information Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

For more information on Ari, please refer to http://itk.samfundet.no/dok/Ari

License

Ari is made publicly available under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. All contributions are the property of their respective contributors.

Authors

The following persons have contributed to the development of Ari:

• Stein Magnus Jodal <jodal@samfundet.no>
• Vidar Wahlberg <canidae@samfundet.no>
• Thomas Adamcik <adamcik@samfundet.no>
• Kristian Klette <klette@samfundet.no>

If you make a contribution to Ari, feel free to add yourself to this list.

Installing

1. Install all dependencies, as found in requirements.txt.

   On Debian systems, the following should suffice:

   sudo aptitude install python-gd python-numpy python-pygame
   

   Alternatively, the requirements.txt file can maybe be used by pip to install the needed libraries:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Install the Ari library, executable and init.d script:

   sudo python setup.py install
   

Running as a daemon

To run Ari as a daemon, painting to the LED wall:

1. To make Ari start at boot, activate the init.d script:

   sudo update-rc.d ari defaults
   

2. Start ari using the init.d script:

   sudo invoke-rc.d ari start
   

Running the simulator

To run Ari using the built-in simulator, run:

ari-server.py --simulator

To get more help on how to use the ari-server.py command, run:

ari-server.py --help