SIP Irrigation Control is a web-based application used for controlling irrigation systems. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps required to install SIP Irrigation Control on FreeBSD Latest.
Before starting, you will need the following:
Before we start installing SIP Irrigation Control, we need to ensure that all the required dependencies are installed. Open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo pkg update
sudo pkg install python3 py38-sqlite3 py38-jinja2 py38-pip
Once all the dependencies are installed, we can proceed with the installation of SIP Irrigation Control. Run the following commands in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/dan-in-ca/SIP.git
cd SIP
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
Now that SIP Irrigation Control is installed, we need to configure it to suit our requirements. In this example, we will change the port to 8080. Run the following command:
sudo vi SIP/settings.py
Locate the following line in the file:
PORT = 5000
Change it to:
PORT = 8080
Save and close the file by pressing esc and typing :wq.
We are now ready to start SIP Irrigation Control. Run the following command:
sudo python3 main.py
SIP Irrigation Control is now running and can be accessed by opening a web browser and navigating to http://<server-ip>:8080/.
We have now successfully installed and configured SIP Irrigation Control on FreeBSD Latest. You can go ahead and configure SIP Irrigation Control to suit your specific requirements.
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