In the quest for an easy way to install GoPiGo3 API over the latest OS on the latest Raspberry Pi, the idea to create a Docker image based on the official python:3.7-buster Docker image, adding the pi user and running the GoPiGo3 update_gopigo3.sh installation script.
I was able to get the build to complete without complaining, but attempting to instantiate a GoPiGo3 object requires pigpiod, which complains “machine is not a rasberry pi” so it looks like this idea is a dead end.
I have Docker installed on my PiOS Bookworm Pi5 and just tried:
pi@GoPi5Go:~/GoPi5Go/systests/legacy $ docker run -it --net=host --privileged --rm python:3.7-buster bash
root@GoPi5Go:/# whoami
root
root@GoPi5Go:/# more /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" <<--- Buster
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
root@GoPi5Go:/# python --version
Python 3.7.17 <--- Python 3.7 (Why did you want 3.7?)
root@GoPi5Go:/# uname -a
Linux GoPi5Go 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.31-1+rpt1 (2024-05-29) aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@GoPi5Go
This is on a 64-bit Bookworm, the Buster OS is running over the Bookworm 64-bit kernel.
Created a “DockerFile” to build upon this image - add a pi user, bring down and run the GoPiGo3 install script on the python:3.7-buster base.
The build succeeds but the GoPiGo3 complains because pigpiod doesn’t like the Pi5:
#29 255.0 GOPIGO3 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SUCCESSFUL.
#29 DONE 271.1s
pi@GoPi5Go:DOCKER:~/Dexter/GoPiGo3/Software/Python/Examples $ sudo ./Read_Info.py
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Can't connect to pigpio at localhost(8888)
Did you start the pigpio daemon? E.g. sudo pigpiod
...
pi@GoPi5Go:DOCKER:~/Dexter/GoPiGo3/Software/Python/Examples $ sudo pigpiod
2024-08-09 13:01:51 gpioHardwareRevision: unknown rev code (c04170)
2024-08-09 13:01:51 initCheckPermitted:
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|Sorry, this system does not appear to be a raspberry pi. |
|aborting. |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
Can't initialise pigpio library
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