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Installing Hexascroller service script

With systemd

    cp hexaservice/hexascroller.service /etc/systemd/system
    systemctl enable hexascroller.service
    systemctl start hexascroller.service

At Resistor, the service runs in:

/home/pi/Hexascroller/hexaservice

Stop/start with

service hexascroller stop service hexascroller start service hexascroller restart

Run manually with

sudo apt install git python3-paho-mqtt python3-serial python3-pil
cd /home/pi/Hexascroller/hexaservice
MQTT_HOST=mymqtthost.local MQTT_USER=mqttuser MQTT_PASS=verysecret /usr/bin/python3 service.py

The host is a Raspberry Pi Zero W Rev 1.1. Three Teensies on the usb hub run the displays.

Run in debug mode with service.py debug in one terminal, debug.py in another on the same machine.