Notes for hue_plus.txt

I know it's not important for most of you, but I got a copy of the NZXT HUE+ software to run on a raspberry pi.
Now I have a RGB led kit in my MS-DOS gaming rig that I can change however I like.
Please note that audio level monitoring seems to use up too many cpu cycles and is too glitchy to run well on a ras pi 3B+
so it's probably not worth bothering with that for now...

I'm probably gonna release some arm .deb binaries for this cause it takes about 2+ hours to compile it all.



1. Download and compile python 3.6...
##prepare build environment...
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev qt5-default pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools sip-dev -yy

##download and extract sourcecode, replace link with newest release of python 3.6...
cd /usr/src
sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/Python-3.6.0.tgz
sudo tar xzf Python-3.6.0.tgz

##compile...
sudo -s
cd Python-3.6.0
make -j 4
make altinstall
exit
##REBOOT PI, then move to step two



2. Download and compile SIP and PyQt5
##download sip, replace link with latest version
cd /usr/src
sudo wget https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip/sip-4.19.14.tar.gz
sudo tar xzf sip-4.19.14.tar.gz
cd sip-4.19.14

##compile sip
sudo -s
python3.6 configure.py --sip-module=PyQt5.sip
make -j 4
make install

##download PyQt5 replace link with latest version
cd /usr/src
sudo -s
wget https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/PyQt5/PyQt5_gpl-5.12.tar.gz
tar xzf PyQt5_gpl-5.12.tar.gz
cd PyQt5_gpl-5.12

##compile PyQt5, this is the part that takes 2 hours
python3.6 configure.py
make -j 4
make install
exit



3. Download and compile hue_plus
## configure python3.6 for hue_plus dependancies
sudo pip3.6 install --upgrade pip
sudo pip3.6 install pyserial
sudo pip3.6 install pyaudio

##Download hue_plus, replace link with latest version
cd /usr/src
sudo -s
wget https://github.com/kusti8/hue-plus/archive/v.1.4.5.tar.gz
tar xzf v.1.4.5.tar.gz
cd hue-plus-v.1.4.5

##compile and install hue_plus
python3.6 setup.py build
python3.6 setup.py install
exit

then you can run the hue application. 
I like to use... hue alternating -b -m 2 1 aa1100 550000