Based on https://github.com/tinue/APA102_Pi

Prerequisites

see above, but basically

• pi should have raspbian 9 on it

• pi should have SPI enabled

raspi-config

# Interfacing Options > SPI

reboot

• Adafruit_Python_GPIO should be installed

see https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_GPIO, but basically

apt-get install build-essential python3-pip python3-dev python3-smbus git
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_GPIO.git
cd Adafruit_Python_GPIO
python setup.py install

for testing on a not-raspberry pi this seemed to work:

git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_GPIO.git
python setup.py install

• pyfrc should be installed both on the pi and your workstation

Deploy

python deploy.sh

will push code and restart the script. To make it run on boot up, you will have to run

systemctl enable lightshow.service

manually on the pi