Warning

SmartAnthill has not been released yet. The steps decribed below will install development verion of SmartAnthill. Don’t forget to upgrade SmartAnthill using the same installation steps from time to time.

Installation

SmartAnthill is written in Python and works on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows OS and ARM-based credit-card sized computers (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, CubieBoard).

System requirements

All commands below should be executed in Command-line application:

  • Mac OS X / Linux this is Terminal application.
  • Windows this is Command Prompt (cmd.exe) application.

Note

Linux Users: Don’t forget to install “udev” rules file 99-platformio-udev.rules (an instruction is located in the file).

Windows Users: Please check that you have correctly installed USB driver from board manufacturer

Installation Methods

Please choose one of the following installation methods:

Super-Quick (Mac / Linux)

To install or upgrade SmartAnthill paste that at a Terminal prompt (you MIGHT need to run sudo first, just for installation):

[sudo] python -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smartanthill/smartanthill2_0/develop/scripts/get-smartanthill.py)"

Installer Script (Mac / Linux / Windows)

To install or upgrade SmartAnthill, download (save as...) get-smartanthill.py script. Then run the following (you MIGHT need to run sudo first, just for installation):

# change directory to folder where is located downloaded "get-smartanthill.py"
cd /path/to/dir/where/is/located/get-smartanthill.py/script

# run it
python get-smartanthill.py

On Windows OS it may look like:

# change directory to folder where is located downloaded "get-smartanthill.py"
cd C:\path\to\dir\where\is\located\get-smartanthill.py\script

# run it
C:\Python27\python.exe get-smartanthill.py

Full Guide

  1. Check python version (only 2.6-2.7 is supported):
$ python --version

Windows Users only:

  1. Download Python 2.7 and install it.
  2. Download and install the latest Python for Windows extensions (PyWin32).
  3. Add to PATH system variable ;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts; and reopen Command Prompt (cmd.exe) application. Please read this article How to set the path and environment variables in Windows.
  1. Check a pip tool for installing and managing Python packages:
pip search smartanthill

You should see short information about smartanthill package.

If your computer does not recognize pip command, try to install it first using these instructions.

  1. Install a smartanthill and related packages:

Warning

SmartAnthill has not been published in PyPi registry. Please use installation script get-smartanthill.py mentioned above.

pip install smartanthill && pip install --egg scons

For upgrading the smartanthill to new version please use this command:

pip install -U smartanthill