Distros 🔗
| Distro | Remarks |
|---|---|
| Raspbian | Full featured OS. Great features |
| Raspbian Lite | More minimal version of raspbian based on debian OS. 1.9GB unzipped. No desktop environment |
| DietPi | Very small debian based OS. Untested by me yet |
| Minibian | Super small version of debian based OS. Has some problems with regards to installed apps |
| Arch Linux ARM | Very small bare metal OS (sub 1GB) |
| Ubuntu Core | Ubuntu OS based on snaps. Not an ideal development environment |
Initial Setup (Tested on raspbian lite) 🔗
- Enable ssh
- create a file called
sshin thebootpartition
- create a file called
- Setup WIFI
- Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file or wpa_supplicant.conf
- Quick tip for ssh
- raspberry pi has a default hostname of
raspberrypi, so connecting using pi@raspberrypi saves one from having to use a ping scanner to find the current ip address of the pi - Setup passwordless login
- Generate ssh keys
( *Important to save to C:\Users\choon.ssh so that git automatically detects the ssh key!)ssh-keygen - Copy the ssh key to the server
cat id_rsa.pub | ssh pi@raspberrypi 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' - Disable password logins (to do)
- Generate ssh keys
- raspberry pi has a default hostname of
Programs to install 🔗
sudo apt-get install python3-pip virtualenv gitBluetooth 🔗
- General bluetooth setup on [RPi] (https://www.elinux.org/RPi_Bluetooth_LE)
- Installing bluepy
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
pip3 install bluepy- Important! Setting Permissions
- If on running
blescan, we receive this error message, we need to run the below command to set bluetooth permissions for all users
(bluepy.btle.BTLEException: Failed to execute mgmt cmd 'le on')
sudo setcap 'cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip' /home/pi/env/connections/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bluepy/bluepy-helper - If on running
- Important! Setting Permissions
•Notes with this notation aren't good enough. They are being updated.