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=Installing Operating System=
=Installing=


The kit came with an 8GB SD card with the NOOBS operating system (for beginners at raspberry pi) pre-installed. Nice touch, but I didn't want to use NOOBS, I wanted to use a Raspbery Pi version of Debian so that I can hack this thing up. I downloaded an image file from http://www.raspberrypi.org/ (it was a zip file, containing an img file).
Instructions for installing an operating system on the Raspberry Pi: [[RaspberryPi/Installing]]


==Step 0: Plug the SD card in==


You're going to be installing the operating system for the Raspberry Pi onto an SD card, so pick an SD card that you'll use, and plug it into your laptop.
==After Installing: Interfacing with Headless Pi==


==Step 1: Find your SD card==
Instructions for interfacing with headless Raspberry Pis, including how to change their boot sequence to find them on a network: [[RaspberryPi/Headless]]


I plugged my SD card into my Mac OS X (running 10.8), and ran this command to list all the devices:


<pre>
==After Installing: First Steps with Pi==
$ diskutil list
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/sbin/diskutil) has __RESTRICT/__restrict section
/dev/disk0
  #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB  disk0
  1:                        EFI                        209.7 MB  disk0s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS Cronus                  249.2 GB  disk0s2
  3:                Apple_Boot Recovery HD            650.0 MB  disk0s3
/dev/disk1
  #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0:    FDisk_partition_scheme                        *7.9 GB    disk1
  1:                DOS_FAT_32 NOOBS                  7.9 GB    disk1s1
/dev/disk2
  #:                      TYPE NAME                    SIZE      IDENTIFIER
  0:    Apple_partition_scheme                        *16.7 MB    disk2
  1:        Apple_partition_map                        32.3 KB    disk2s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS Flash Player            16.7 MB    disk2s2
</pre>
 
That means my sd card is at <code>/dev/disk1</code>.
 
==Step 2: Unmount card==
 
Now I unmount the SD card:
 
<pre>
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful
</pre>
 
==Step 3: Write image to SD card==
 
For the last step, you use <code>dd</code> (disk formatter utility) to write that image to your SD card:
 
<pre>
$ sudo dd bs=1m if=2014-06-20-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/disk1
2825+0 records in
2825+0 records out
2962227200 bytes transferred in 1571.202055 secs (1885325 bytes/sec)
</pre>
 
 
The above command took 27 minutes on my system.
 
==Resources==
 
* http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md
* http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
 
=Interfacing with Headless Raspberry Pi=
 
==Step 1: Modify Raspberry Pi boot sequence==


Following http://pihw.wordpress.com/guides/direct-network-connection/
You can find a guide to your first steps with Raspberry Pi, mainly covering the setup process for Raspbian Linux: [[RaspberryPi/First Steps]]


Plug the SD card back into your computer. Edit the file cmdline.txt to include a directive to hard-code an IP address.
=Raspberry Pi Projects=


If your laptop finds an IP address automatically, then you can specify any IP address you want for your RPi, as long as it is in the range 169.254.X.Y (anything between 169.254.0.0 to 169.254.254.254).
==Hardware Focus==


I added this to the end of cmdline.txt:
Most recent projects listed first.


<pre>
===Making an Internet of Things Morse Code Keyer with Raspberry Pi===
ip=169.254.113.200
</pre>


Then I ran
Combining the morse code example below with [[Flask]], a lightweight web server for Python, allows us to create an API for remotely controlling the Raspberry Pi. We can then use the Raspberry Pi to send morse code with the LED.


<pre>
Here are the details: [[RaspberryPi/IoT Morse Code Keyer]]
$ cp cmdline.txt cmdline.direct
</pre>


Now plug the SD card into the RPi and boot with a hard-coded IP address. This will work because we're connecting the computer and the RPi directly.
===Morse Code on Raspberry Pi===


==Step 2: Cat5 Network Cable==
This page has more details on a quick-and-easy way to get a Morse code library I wrote in Python up and running on the Raspberry Pi: [[RaspberryPi/Morse Code]]


Get a standard network cable and connect the laptop to the RPi. Remove the SD card from the laptop once you've modified cmdline and put it in the RPi to boot it up.
===Raspberry Pi Timelapse Photo===


[[Image:RaspberryPi_Network.jpg|500px]]
You can find a short guide to how I built a Raspberry Pi time lapse photo camera here:  


[[Image:RaspberryPi_Laptop_Network.jpg|500px]]
[[RaspberryPi/Timelapse]]


==Step 3: SSH==
===Hello World LED Circuit with GPIO===


Now you can SSH to the IP address you specified:
This project controls a simple LED circuit with the Raspberry Pi's onboard GPIO cable: [[Hello World Raspberry Pi]]


[[Image:SSH_RaspberryPi.png]]
This project uses a python code to send high/low voltage signals to pins on the GPIO, and make an LED on a breadboard blink.


=First Steps with Raspberry Pi=
==Software Focus==


==Configuring your RPi==
===Run Web Server on Pi===


When you first SSH into your RPi, it will notify you that you have to run a config program to set up your RPi initially.
You can find a guide to running a lightweight web server with Flask or something similar:


[[Image:RaspberryPi_Config.png]]
[[RaspberryPi/Web Server]]


I picked the first menu item, and that required a system reboot:
===Kali Linux on Raspberry Pi===


[[Image:RaspberryPi_Reboot.png]]
Getting deeper into the world of networking and using the Pi for security and networking applications:  


==Putting RPi on a Network==
[[Kali Raspberry Pi]]


As a next step, we'll want RPi to be internet-capable so we can use aptitude to install some packages and get this operating system tuned up.
===Tor Proxy with Pi===


First, you'll keep your network cable plugged into your RPi.
More info here: [https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi]


[[Image:RaspberryPi_PluggedInRPi.jpg|500px]]


Then you'll plug the other end of the network cable into a network router or a network wall jack (see IMPORTANT CAVEAT below).
==Wifi Access Point==


[[Image:RaspberryPi_PluggedInRouter.jpg|500px]]
===Installing Requisite Software===


Once you plug your RPi into the network router, it'll still have the same IP address, so you can still SSH to it the same way:
Basically, you will be setting up your Pi as a host access point, which requires some software. Specifically, here is the software required:


<pre>
<pre>
$ ssh pi@169.254.113.200
$ sudo apt-get install hostapd isc-dhcp-server
</pre>
</pre>


but now the RPi will have internet connectivity:
===Set Up DHCP Server===


[[Image:RaspberryPi_Aptitude.png]]
Next, set up the DHCP server by editing <code>/etc/dhcp/dhcp.conf</code>


==Local Area Network==
Remove the following two lines by commenting them out:
 
If you plug your RPi into a wall jack and you're on a local area network administered by someone else, you may have internet connectivity issues. This is because you're hard-coding an IP address, but some networks must assign IP addresses themselves in order to allow a computer to get outside the local area network. In this case, you'll have to contact a network administrator and ask them to reserve an IP address for your Raspberry Pi.
 
Your network administrator will give you a couple of pieces of information:
* IP address - example <code>10.10.9.22</code>
* Netmask - example <code>255.255.255.0</code>
* Gateway - example <code>10.10.9.1</code>
 
You can enter the IP address in your <code>cmdline.direct</code> file.
 
To specify the netmask and gateway, edit the file <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code> and add a section for your ethernet interface that specifies the netmask and gateway:


<pre>
<pre>
auto eth0
option domain-name "example.org";
iface eth0 inet static
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.org, ns2.example.org;
address 10.10.9.22
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.10.9.1
</pre>
</pre>


This should replace a line that looks like this:
Next, add the word "authoritative;" to the section where it gives you information. You should see this in your file:


<pre>
<pre>
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
# If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local
# network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
authoritative;
</pre>
</pre>


which says to automatically find an IP address for this ethernet interface by getting one from the DHCP server.
Finally, add the following lines to set up the IP address assignment/configuration:
 
If you don't know what your network interface is, execute this command:


<pre>
<pre>
ifconfig -a | grep eth
subnet 192.168.42.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.50;
option broadcast-address 192.168.42.255;
option routers 192.168.42.1;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name "local";
option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4;
}
</pre>
</pre>


==If You Absolutely, Positively Must Use a Dynamic IP==
===Set Up DHCP Interfaces===


In case you are dealing with a situation where you have to let your Raspberry Pi be dynamically configured an IP address, and you have to somehow figure out what IP address your Raspberry Pi has, and you don't have a monitor to simply print it out, here's what you can do: you can modify SSH to listen on a particular port, like 9999. Then, you can let the RPi be dynamically assigned an IP address by the network DHCP server. It will be listening for incoming connections on port 9999, and we can use nmap to look for IP addresses listening on that port.
Next, edit the file <code>/etc/default/isc-dhcp-server</code> and update the <code>INTERFACES</code> section to read:
 
===Remote Connect to Your RPi===
 
The first step to dynamically configuring your RPi is to first have a static IP address assigned to it, and have it directly connected to your computer. You will SSH into the RPi to modify the port that SSH listens on. We'll use that as a way to flag RPi's IP address, and use nmap to discover its IP address.
 
===Modify SSH===
 
Open the SSH daemon config file:


<pre>
<pre>
vim /etc/ssh/ssh_config
INTERFACES="wlan0"
</pre>
</pre>


Change the line specifying the port it listens on:
Now disable the wlan0 interface:


<pre>
<pre>
Listen 22
sudo ifdown wlan0
</pre>
</pre>


to something else,
Now change the wlan0 network interface so that it will use manually-assigned IP address information, instead of trying to set everything automatically. Edit <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code> and add/change the lines:


<pre>
<pre>
Listen 9999
# auto wlan0
</pre>
</pre>
===Get the RPi a Dynamic IP Address===
One last step remains: edit the boot file of the RPi so it doesn't hard-code the IP address anymore. Pull the SD card out of the RPi and put the card in your laptop. Edit <code>master.txt</code>,


<pre>
<pre>
vim /Volumes/boot/master.txt
allow-hotplug wlan0
</pre>
 
and remove the IP statement at the end,


<pre>
iface wlan0 inet static
ip=169.254.113.200
    address 192.168.42.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0
</pre>
</pre>


and finally, copy that to <code>master.direct</code>,
Finally, edit <code>/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf</code> to set up the wireless network:


<pre>
<pre>
cp /Volumes/boot/master.{txt,direct}
interface=wlan0
driver=rtl871xdrv
ssid=Pi_AP
hw_mode=g
channel=6
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=Raspberry
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
</pre>
</pre>


Now plug it into the network or router.
Note that the <code>driver=rtl871xdrv</code> line may need to change.


===Discovering the RPi IP Address with Nmap===
===More Info===


In the steps above, we modified our Raspberry Pi so that SSH would listen on port 9999, and the RPi would get a dynamic IP address instead of a static IP address. Now that we've plugged our RPi into our network, and it has its dynamic IP address, we have to find it.
More info here: [https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point]


We're going to use nmap search for all IP addresses listening on port 9999.
=Powering the Pi via UART/Serial=


First, I ran this command from a laptop that was connected to the same router as the RPi:
UART = Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmit


<pre>
While you can normally interface with and power the Pi by plugging it into a computer or a wall wart via the mini USB port, you can also power the Pi via the pins on the board, and communicate with the Pi via a serial connection. This uses the 5V, Ground, TX, and RX pins that are on the right side (the 5V side) of the pins on the Pi board.
$ ifconfig
</pre>


I found the laptop's IP address, and used the first three digits as the fixed digits of the IP address in the nmap search. In this case, my laptop was at 10.0.0.5, and the router was at 10.0.0.1.
By plugging these into a USB serial adapter, which is plugged into a computer, the connection can be used to provide power and a connection to the Pi.


Now I do a search for all IP addresses listening on port 9999:
More details: http://villagescience.org/running-raspberry-pi-usb-serial-ttl-adapter/


<pre>
=Notes by Date=
nmap -p9999 10.0.0.0-255
</pre>


(Or, if you're on a small network, you can just do a scan of port 22.) Here's the results of my nmap scan of port 22:
[[Raspberry Pi 2015-07-29]] - basic hello world


[[Image:Nmap9999.png]]
[[Raspberry Pi 2015-07-30]] - basic hello world writeup


Thus, our RPi is at 10.0.0.16 (this may be a bit more challenging on a larger LAN network where more services might be listening, but that is just a matter of trial and error).
[[Raspberry Pi 2015-07-31]] - morse code writeup, Flask Web API to control hardware


Here, I SSH to the RPi:
[[August 2015]] - notes from august 2015


[[Image:SSH9999.png]]
[[August 2016]] - notes from august 2016


And... success!
=Resources=


[[Image:SSH9999Success.png]]
* http://raspberry.io/wiki/how-to-get-python-on-your-raspberrypi/


And here's the whole reason for doing all of this: we've got a connection to the outside world now!
{{PiFlag}}


[[Image:SSH9999Ping.png]]
[[Category:Raspberry Pi]]
 
===Remote Connect to Your RPi on Port XYZ===
 
If you've already changed the port that SSH is listening on, and you need to SSH into the RPi again, just use the <code>-p <port></code> option when you issue your SSH command to the RPi:
 
<pre>
ssh -p 9999 169.254.113.200
</pre>
 
===OOPS===
 
If you really screw this up, and change the port the RPi is listening on, and can't figure out how to fix it, you can always just re-apply the .img file you downloaded to the SD card, wiping out your changes. No problemo.
==Software Installation==
 
A list of commands that I ran on the RPi to get things installed:
 
<pre>
#!/bin/sh
 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y liblapack-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libblas-dev
sudo apt-get install -y gfortran
 
sudo apt-get install python-dev
wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
python distribute_setup.py
wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
 
sudo pip install virtualenv
sudo pip install flask
sudo pip install cython
sudo pip install numpy
sudo pip install pandas
sudo pip install scipy
</pre>
 
==Resources==
 
* http://raspberry.io/wiki/how-to-get-python-on-your-raspberrypi/

Latest revision as of 02:30, 12 August 2017

A guide to hacking on the Raspberry Pi, a microcomputer that runs a full stack Linux OS, all on a mobile processor:

RaspberryPi PluggedInRPi.jpg

Installing

Instructions for installing an operating system on the Raspberry Pi: RaspberryPi/Installing


After Installing: Interfacing with Headless Pi

Instructions for interfacing with headless Raspberry Pis, including how to change their boot sequence to find them on a network: RaspberryPi/Headless


After Installing: First Steps with Pi

You can find a guide to your first steps with Raspberry Pi, mainly covering the setup process for Raspbian Linux: RaspberryPi/First Steps

Raspberry Pi Projects

Hardware Focus

Most recent projects listed first.

Making an Internet of Things Morse Code Keyer with Raspberry Pi

Combining the morse code example below with Flask, a lightweight web server for Python, allows us to create an API for remotely controlling the Raspberry Pi. We can then use the Raspberry Pi to send morse code with the LED.

Here are the details: RaspberryPi/IoT Morse Code Keyer

Morse Code on Raspberry Pi

This page has more details on a quick-and-easy way to get a Morse code library I wrote in Python up and running on the Raspberry Pi: RaspberryPi/Morse Code

Raspberry Pi Timelapse Photo

You can find a short guide to how I built a Raspberry Pi time lapse photo camera here:

RaspberryPi/Timelapse

Hello World LED Circuit with GPIO

This project controls a simple LED circuit with the Raspberry Pi's onboard GPIO cable: Hello World Raspberry Pi

This project uses a python code to send high/low voltage signals to pins on the GPIO, and make an LED on a breadboard blink.

Software Focus

Run Web Server on Pi

You can find a guide to running a lightweight web server with Flask or something similar:

RaspberryPi/Web Server

Kali Linux on Raspberry Pi

Getting deeper into the world of networking and using the Pi for security and networking applications:

Kali Raspberry Pi

Tor Proxy with Pi

More info here: [1]


Wifi Access Point

Installing Requisite Software

Basically, you will be setting up your Pi as a host access point, which requires some software. Specifically, here is the software required:

$ sudo apt-get install hostapd isc-dhcp-server

Set Up DHCP Server

Next, set up the DHCP server by editing /etc/dhcp/dhcp.conf

Remove the following two lines by commenting them out:

option domain-name "example.org";
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.org, ns2.example.org;

Next, add the word "authoritative;" to the section where it gives you information. You should see this in your file:

# If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local
# network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
authoritative;

Finally, add the following lines to set up the IP address assignment/configuration:

subnet 192.168.42.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
	range 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.50;
	option broadcast-address 192.168.42.255;
	option routers 192.168.42.1;
	default-lease-time 600;
	max-lease-time 7200;
	option domain-name "local";
	option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4;
}

Set Up DHCP Interfaces

Next, edit the file /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server and update the INTERFACES section to read:

INTERFACES="wlan0"

Now disable the wlan0 interface:

sudo ifdown wlan0

Now change the wlan0 network interface so that it will use manually-assigned IP address information, instead of trying to set everything automatically. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and add/change the lines:

# auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static
    address 192.168.42.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0

Finally, edit /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf to set up the wireless network:

interface=wlan0
driver=rtl871xdrv
ssid=Pi_AP
hw_mode=g
channel=6
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=Raspberry
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

Note that the driver=rtl871xdrv line may need to change.

More Info

More info here: [2]

Powering the Pi via UART/Serial

UART = Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmit

While you can normally interface with and power the Pi by plugging it into a computer or a wall wart via the mini USB port, you can also power the Pi via the pins on the board, and communicate with the Pi via a serial connection. This uses the 5V, Ground, TX, and RX pins that are on the right side (the 5V side) of the pins on the Pi board.

By plugging these into a USB serial adapter, which is plugged into a computer, the connection can be used to provide power and a connection to the Pi.

More details: http://villagescience.org/running-raspberry-pi-usb-serial-ttl-adapter/

Notes by Date

Raspberry Pi 2015-07-29 - basic hello world

Raspberry Pi 2015-07-30 - basic hello world writeup

Raspberry Pi 2015-07-31 - morse code writeup, Flask Web API to control hardware

August 2015 - notes from august 2015

August 2016 - notes from august 2016

Resources