Table of Contents
Raspberry Pi
Prior to boot
OS?
- NOOBS
- Raspbian
- Probabbly any other Linux with ARM support
Provide enough power (undervoltage causes instability).
Connect HDMI - if applicable (no cable present at boot will by default disable video output).
Connect peripheals?
edit/create in /boot
- enable ssh? - create empty file “ssh”)
- preconfigure Wi-Fi? file wpa_supplicant.conf
Example:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=CZ
network={
ssid="YOURSSID"
psk="YOURPASSWORD"
scan_ssid=1
}
- System configuration “config” file
- force HDMI out
- many other system options
First boot
User: pi Password: raspberry
- Change default password?
- Connect to internet?
- apt update & upgrade
- raspi-config
Programming
Python recomended, any language should be feasible though. Many libraries available (as usual with python https://xkcd.com/353/)
Ad-hoc networking
example of /etc/network/interfaces
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address {{ wlan_ip }}
netmask 255.255.255.0
wireless-channel 48
wireless-essid crocs-raspi-net
wireless-txpower 1
wireless-mode ad-hoc