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Building on Raspberry PI

Supported Hardware

Any Raspberry Pi versions 1, 2, or 3 should work. The following have been tested and verified to work:

|==================|========|
| model            | rev    |
| rpi 1 b+ rev 1.2 | 0010   |
| rpi 2 b rev 1.1  | a21041 |
| rpi 3 b rev 1.2  | a02082 |
| rpi 3 b+ rev 1.3 | a020d3 |
|==================|========|

Supported Operating System

Raspbian Buster: 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster

other operating system versions may work, but have not been tested

Rasperry PiOS will not work out of the box. if you want to use it, install the videocore libraries in /opt/vc

Installation

Run on your Raspberry PI:

mkdir -p app && cd app
curl -O https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/release/v18.9.1/node-v18.9.1-linux-armv6l.tar.gz
tar xzvf node-v18.9.1-linux-armv6l.tar.gz
cd ..
echo "PATH=~/app/node-v18.9.1-linux-armv6l/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
git clone https://github.com/dustmop/rasterjs

This does the following:

  • downloads an unofficial node.js build v18.9.1
  • extract the contents into app/
  • adds this node interpreter to your PATH
  • clones this repository

Next, install dependencies for the node-canvas npm package (which only used for building gifs, and may be removed in the future):

sudo apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change
sudo apt-get install build-essential \
  libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev \
  libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev

Finally, build the native addon that will use the dispmanx backend:

cd rasterjs
npm install

RGB Matrix with the Adafruit Hat

To compile support for the RGB Matrix with the Adafruit Hat, just clone this library to your RPI's home directory:

cd /home/pi
git clone https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix