readme.md

RFID Check In System

Purpose

• Made to help check in system in a small scale organization or club
• Hosted on a Raspberry Pi (developed on Pi 4) on Ubuntu

Set up

• On fresh install of Ubuntu LTS (server)
  1. sudo apt update
  2. sudo apt upgrade
  3. sudo apt install
  4. sudo apt install python3
  5. sudo apt install python3-lgpio
  6. sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv
  7. lsmod | grep spi
     • search for spi_bcm2835
  8. sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php
• installing git
  1. sudo apt install git-all
  2. git --version

Initialization

Python

1. python3 -m venv env
2. source env/bin/activate || (windows) source env/Scripts/activate
3. python3 -m pip install spidev
4. python3 -m pip install mfrc522

Resources

• RFID set up
• Integrate RFID
• LGPIO for ubuntu
• Installing PHP on Ubuntu
• https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/40105/access-gpio-pins-without-root-no-access-to-dev-mem-try-running-as-root

Hardware

• RFID reader --> rc522
• Raspberry PI

Assumptions

• Apache server is installed