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Grant Byrne edited this page Oct 27, 2021 · 12 revisions

Zapper - Getting Started

This page is a work in progress. Don't expect complete or correct information for getting started

Parts List

Setting Up the Raspberry PI

  1. Install a fresh instance of the "Raspberry Pi OS Lite" image to an SD card which can be found here here
  2. Set up SSH on the PI
  3. Set up WIFI on the PI
  4. Install lirc through the apt-get package manager
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lirc
  1. Update the boot config to associate LIRC with the correct GPIO pins Command to Edit the File sudo nano /boot/config.txt Add the following lines to the file 
dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=18
dtoverlay=gpio-ir-tx,gpio_pin=17
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