RTLAMR systemctl setup/files for raspberry pi.

readme.md

Basic steps to get the server up and running on a Raspberry Pi with 2019-09-26-raspbian-buster-lite

Install OS, go through raspi-setup and set password, hostname, locale, time-zone, etc. Update all the things:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Install Git and GoLang

$ sudo apt-get install git golang rtl-sdr

Add /home/pi/go to the path in .profile and source it

Install RTLAMR pieces

$ go get github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

$ go get github.com/bemasher/rtlamr-collect

To autostart everything, copy below files into /etc/systemd/system/ and update params as needed

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

$ sudo systemctl start rtl-tcp rtlamr-collect

Check /var/log/daemon.log for status

If everything looks good, set up the Pi to load those services on reboot

$ sudo systemctl enable rtl-tcp rtlamr-collect

rtl-tcp.service

[Unit]
Description=Software Defined Radio TCP Server
Wants=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rtl_tcp
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

rtlamr-collect.env

GOPATH=/home/pi/go

RTLAMR_FORMAT=json
RTLAMR_MSGTYPE=idm
#RTLAMR_FILTERID=00000000 # UPDATE TO MATCH YOUR METER ID

COLLECT_INFLUXDB_HOSTNAME=http://YOURINFLUXDBHOST:8086
COLLECT_INFLUXDB_DATABASE=rtlamr
COLLECT_INFLUXDB_USER=YOURINFLUXDBUSER
COLLECT_INFLUXDB_PASS=YOURINFLUXDPASSWORD

rtlamr-collect.service

[Unit]
Description=RTLAMR Collector
BindsTo=rtl-tcp.service
After=rtl-tcp.service

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/systemd/system/rtlamr-collect.env
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/home/pi/go/bin/rtlamr | /home/pi/go/bin/rtlamr-collect'
Restart=always
RestartSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target