RunMyRobot is a site for interacts with other using telepresence robots. User create their own robots and add them to the site. https://runmyrobot.com

The RasPi will need the following things install so it can talk to your motor and talk to the internet.

(1) Install motor HAT software:

(2) Install python serial, gnutls, python-dev, espeak, and python-smbus:

apt-get install python-serial python-dev libgnutls28-dev espeak python-smbus python-pip git

(3) Install socket.io client for python:

pip install socketIO-client

(4) Install alsa-lib

cd /usr/local/src 
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.25.tar.bz2 
tar xjf alsa-lib-1.0.25.tar.bz2
cd /usr/local/src/alsa-lib-1.0.25 
./configure --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi 
make -j4 
sudo make install

(5) Install x264

cd /usr/local/src
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264
cd x264
./configure --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --enable-static --disable-opencl
make -j4
sudo make install

(6) Install FFmpeg

cd /usr/local/src
git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git
cd FFmpeg
./configure --arch=armel --target-os=linux --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-gnutls --extra-libs=-ldl
make -j4
sudo make install

Start by cloning the runmyrobot repository

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/runmyrobot/runmyrobot
cd runmyrobot

Go to new robot page to create a robot. If you already have one, got to manage robots. There you'll find your Robot ID and Camera ID.

These two scripts need to be running in the background to bring your robot to life: controller.py, send_video.py. Here are instructions about how to start them.

Copy the 'start_robot' Script from runmyrobot/Scripts to the pi home folder

cp ~/runmyrobot/scripts/start_robot ~/

Edit the script so you can adjust some settings for controller.py and send_video.py:

nano ~/start_robot

Edit the YOURROBOTID to your robot ID.

Edit the YOURCAMERAID to your camera ID.

You are getting both IDs when you are creating a new bot on the website.

The second parameter on send_video.py 0 is assuming you have one camera plugged into your Pi and you are using it, which is usually the case.

There are more parameter possible for controller.py:

robot_id

Your Robot ID. Required

--env prod | dev

Environment for example dev or prod | default='prod'

--type motor_hat | serial | l298n | motozero

What type of motor controller should be used | default='motor_hat'

--serial-device /dev/ttyACM0

Serial device | default='/dev/ttyACM0'

--male

Use TTS with a male voice

--female

Use TTS with a female voice

--voice-number 1

What voice should be used | default=1

--led max7219

What LEDs should be used (if any) | default=none

--ledrotate 180

Rotates the LED matrix | default=none

Example start_robot:

cd /home/pi/runmyrobot
nohup scripts/repeat_start python controller.py YOURROBOTID --type motor_hat --male --voice-number 1 --led max7219 --ledrotate 180 &> /dev/null &
nohup scripts/repeat_start python send_video.py YOURCAMERAID 0 &> /dev/null &

crontab -e

insert following line and save:

@reboot /bin/bash /home/pi/start_robot

That's it!

We use ffmpeg to stream audio and socket.io to send control messages.

The is a community project. Making your own bot? Adding your own control stuff? Cool! We'd like to hear from you.

Adafruit Motor Hat

Serial Port based commands

GoPiGo

L298N

MotoZero

Missing something?, you can add it, open source!

Grab the source run the install.sh script in the runmyrobot/scripts folder

(This hasn't been tested yet.)