Fully customizable auxiliary lighting and accessory relay control interface. Built on the PyQt5 UI framework. Designed to interface from a Raspberry Pi via the I2C bus to an external 12V relay shield. Optional interface to external composite video device via composite video to USB adapter.

Current version is 2.2.0

+TacOS requires SIP, PyQt5 and QScintilla to be built and installed on the local machine.
+TacOS setup scripts assume that the TacOS directory is located within /home/pi.

1. Install QT5 Core Tools from APT sudo apt-get install qt5-default

1. Start from a fresh install of Raspbian Stretch.
2. Download SIP from https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/download.
3. Open a new terminal shell.
4. Navigate to the folder that you just downloaded the files to.
5. Extract the SIP tar.gz file tar -xzvf <sip>.tar.gz.
6. Navigate to the new SIP directory cd /<sip>.
7. Configure SIP for build python3 configure.py --sip-module=PyQt5.sip.
8. Create makefile for installation make.
9. Install makefile using sudo make install.

1. Download PyQt5 from https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5.
2. Extract the PyQt5 tar.gz file tar -xzvf <pyqt5>.tar.gz.
3. Navigate to the new PyQt5 directory cd /<pyqt5>.
4. Configure PyQt5 for build using python3 configure.py.
5. Create makefile for installation make.
6. Install makefile sudo make install.

1. Download QScintilla from https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/qscintilla/download.
2. Extract the QScintilla tar.gz file using tar -xzvf <qscintilla>.tar.gz.
3. Navigate to the Qt4Qt5 subdirectory using cd /<qscintilla>/Qt4Qt5.
4. Build the qmake file qmake.
5. Build the makefile make.
6. Install the makefile sudo make install.
7. Navigate to the Python subdirectory cd /<qscintilla>/Python.
8. Configure the Python binding for build using python3 configure.py --pyqt=PyQt5.
9. Build the makefile using make.
10. Install the makefile using sudo make install.

1. Navigate to the TacOS directory cd /home/pi/TacOS.
2. Install the requirements pip3 install -r requirements.txt.

1. Install the ATLAS package from APT sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev

1. Navigate to the TacOS directory cd /home/pi/TacOS.
2. Run the Pi setup script sh setup-rpi.sh.
3. When prompted with the RasPi Config interface, make sure to enable SSH and the I2C interface.