Setting up the software

As already stated, the more complex part of this prototype is the software. We need to install several software packages into our BeagleBone Black, and the software we have to write by ourselves needs some skills. However, don't worry, I'm going to explain all needed steps one at a time!

Setting up the Python bindings

Installing the Python bindings is quite complex since the software package named python-openzwave still seems in hard development, and it depends on tons of Python packages! However, I did it by getting a specific version of the project with the following command line:

root@beaglebone:~# wget http://bibi21000.no-ip.biz/python-openzwave/python-openzwave-0.3.0b5.tgz

Note

Other versions of the python-openzwave package are available at http://bibi21000.no-ip.biz/python-openzwave/.

Now, to explore the archive file, we can use the following command:

root@beaglebone:~# tar xvfz python-openzwave-0.3.0b5.tgz

A new directory, python-openzwave-0.3.0b5, is now created...