🚀 Ubo App

🌟 Overview

Ubo App is a Python application for managing Raspberry Pi utilities and Ubo-specific features.

Example screenshots:

🚧 Disclaimer

Be aware that at the moment, Ubo app sends crash reports to Sentry. Soon we will limit this to beta versions only.

⚙️ Notable Features

• Headless WiFi on-boarding with QR code
• Easy headless remote access with SSH and VS Code tunnel
• Install and run Docker apps headlessly
• Access and control basic RPi utilities and settings
• gRPC API for remote control - find sample clients here

📋 Requirements

Ubo app is developed to run on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5. The experience is optimized around Ubo Pod which offers

• a minimal LCD display and GUI with a keypad
• stereo microphone and speakers,
• camera
• LED ring
• sensors

The app functions even if some of these hardware elements are not provided, however some of the features that rely on these hardware components may not function. For example, WiFi onboarding with QR code requires a camera onboard.

📦 Installation

Pre-packaged image

Ubo Pod ships with a pre-flashed MicroSD card that has the app installed on it by default.

If you don't have it, or you just want to set up a fresh device, then:

1. download one of the images from the release section
2. Use Raspberry Pi Images and choose custom image to provide the download image file.
3. Write to the image
4. Use the image to boot your Ubo Pod or Raspberry Pi

This is the fastest, easiest, and recommended way to get started with Ubo App.

Install on existing OS

If you want to install the image on an existing operating system, then read on. Otherwise, skip this section.

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To install ubo, run this command in a terminal shell:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ubopod/ubo-app/main/ubo_app/system/install.sh\
  | sudo bash

If you want to install docker service and configure ubo to be able to use it run this:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ubopod/ubo-app/main/ubo_app/system/install.sh\
  | sudo WITH_DOCKER=true bash

To allow the installer to install the latest alpha version of ubo run this:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ubopod/ubo-app/main/ubo_app/system/install.sh\
  | sudo ALPHA=true bash
# or
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ubopod/ubo-app/main/ubo_app/system/install.sh\
  | sudo ALPHA=true WITH_DOCKER=true bash

Note that as part of the installation process, these debian packages are installed:

• accountsservice
• git
• i2c-tools
• libasound2-dev
• libcap-dev
• libegl1
• libgl1
• libmtdev1
• libzbar0
• python3-alsaaudio
• python3-apt
• python3-dev
• python3-gpiozero
• python3-libcamera
• python3-picamera2
• python3-pip
• python3-virtualenv
• rpi-lgpio

Also be aware that ubo-app only installs in /opt/ubo and it is not customizable at the moment.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions following Python best practices are welcome.

ℹ️️ Conventions

• Use UBO_ prefix for environment variables.
• Use ubo: prefix for notification ids used in ubo core and <service_name>: prefix for notification ids used in services.
• Use ubo: prefix for icon ids used in ubo core and <service_name>: prefix for icon ids used in services.

Development

Setting up the development environment

To set up the development environment, you need to have Python 3.11+ and uv installed.

First, clone the repository, then install the dependencies:

uv install --with dev --extras=dev

Now you can run the app with:

uv run ubo

Running tests

Easiest way to run tests is to use the provided Dockerfiles. To run the tests in a container, you first need to create the development images by running:

uv run poe build-docker-images

Then you can run the tests with:

docker run --rm -it --name ubo-app-test -v .:/ubo-app -v ubo-app-dev-uv-cache:/root/.cache/uv ubo-app-test

You can add arguments to the pytest command to run specific tests like this:

docker run --rm -it --name ubo-app-test -v .:/ubo-app -v ubo-app-dev-uv-cache:/root/.cache/uv ubo-app-test -- <pytest-args>

For example, to run only the tests in the tests/integration/test_core.py file, you can run:

docker run --rm -it --name ubo-app-test -v .:/ubo-app -v ubo-app-dev-uv-cache:/root/.cache/uv ubo-app-test -- -n3 tests/integration/test_core.py

You can also run the tests in your local environment by running:

uv run poe test

⚠️Note: When running the tests in your local environment, the window snapshots produced by tests may mismatch the expected snapshots. This is because the snapshots are taken with a certain DPI and some environments may have different DPI settings. For example, we are aware that the snapshots taken in macOS have different DPI settings. If you encounter this issue, you should run the tests in a Docker container as described above.

QR code

In development environment, the camera is probably not working, as it is relying on picamera2, so it may become challenging to test the flows relying on QR code input.

To address this, the camera module, in not-RPi environments, will try reading from /tmp/qrcode_input.txt and /tmp/qrcode_input.png too. So, whenever you encounter a QR code input, you can write the content of the QR code in the text file path or put the qrcode image itself in the image file path and the application will read it from there and continue the flow.

Alternatively you may be able to provide the input in the web-ui (needs refresh at the moment) or provide it by InputProvideAction in grpc channel.

🔒 License

This project is released under the Apache-2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for more details.