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Stephen Yeargin edited this page Jul 24, 2015 · 3 revisions

Environment

This project is organized to deploy n+1 Raspberry Pi units for use with displays for Dashing dashboards.

It configures:

Chromium web browser in kiosk mode
X Window System
EDIMAX-compatible Wifi dongle
An SD Card (at least 8GB capacity)

Additionally, there are add-ons for:

motion for broadcasting/recording video with a RasPi camera module

Assumptions

You are running a *nix based host machine (Mac or Linux)
You have SSH available on the host machine
Your RasPi units are equipped with WiFi
You are on the same network as the Raspberry PI

Steps to configure a new Raspberry Pi Unit

Initial Setup

Connect to a display and keyboard and install Raspbian (see this guide for basics of getting started)
Obtain an IP address for the Pi
Clone this repository to a host machine (not the Pi itself)
git clone [email protected]:websages/raspi.git ~/raspi
Run the mkraspi script in the sd_build folder
cd sd_build/ && mkraspi

Configuring Dashing

SSH into the Raspberry Pi
ssh pi@<the ip address>
Clone this repository on to the Pi
git clone [email protected]:websages/raspi.git ~/raspi
Enable autologin to dashing

$ cd modules autologinpi
$ make autologinpi