Raspberry Pi Setup Essentials

00-raspberrypi_setup_essentials.md

Raspberry Pi Setup Essentials

Raspbian

• https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md

Headless setup

https://davidmaitland.me/2015/12/raspberry-pi-zero-headless-setup/

Add file ssh to /boot/ directory.

Update & upgrade Raspbian

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/raspbian/updating.md

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get clean

Update the firmware of your Raspberry Pi

sudo rpi-update

Samba

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
sudo smbpasswd -a pi
sudo service samba restart

Mount

sudo mount 192.168.xxx.xxx:/volume1/video /mnt/video -o nolock

Dropbox

Clone GIT repo and follow the instructions

git clone git@github.com:andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader.git

Plex

Update

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver -y

Picopix

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install libam7xxx0.1-bin

• https://ao2.it/en/news/2013/03/18/libam7xxx-013-released?page=1
• http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/am7xxx-play.1.html

Troubleshooting

SSH Host key verification failed

ssh-keygen -R hostname

01-tactile-switch-led.py

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setwarnings(False)

GPIO.setup(18, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
GPIO.setup(17, GPIO.OUT) # LED Red
GPIO.setup(26, GPIO.OUT) # LED Green

GPIO.output(26, GPIO.HIGH)

prevInput = 0

def toggleLed():
        if (GPIO.input(17)):
                GPIO.output(17, GPIO.LOW)

        else:
                GPIO.output(17, GPIO.HIGH)

while True:
    if (GPIO.input(18) and prevInput == 0):
        toggleLed()
        prevInput = 1
        print("button up")

    if (not GPIO.input(18) and prevInput == 1):
        prevInput = 0
        print("button down")

    time.sleep(0.1)