Documentation Raspberry Pi Setup

Installation

Format SD Card

Install https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/eula_mac/. Format SD Card with option "Logical Address Adjustment" set.

Unmount SD Card

diskutil umount /dev/disk3s1

Copy impage to SD Card

sudo dd if=2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/disk3s1 bs=1m

Use this http://alltheware.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/easiest-way-sd-card-setup/ and https://hotfile.com/dl/186745252/b7094e9/RPi-sd_card_builder_v1.2.zip

Installation daemontools

Install as root or with sudo

apt-get install daemontools daemontools-run

Configure #daemontools config (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) ############################################### Create a directory

/etc/service/XXX für run-file

Create a file

/etc/service/XXX/run

and set permisssions to

chmod 1755

For reference see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Commands

List running processes:

ps -Af | grep yyy.py

List running daemontools services:

svstat /etc/service/*

Stop Service:

svc -d /etc/service/XXX

Start Service:

svc -u /etc/service/XXX

run.sh

Updates the system time with

sudo ntpdate -u time.apple.com

Configuration

Set proper screen resolution & HDMI audio output

In

/boot/config.txt

enable these setting for the Liliput device

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=16

See http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2013/04/10/getting-your-raspberry-pi-to-output-the-right-resolution.aspx for reference

and for Audio output on HDMI uncomment

hdmi_drive=2

See http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60999/omxplayer-and-hdmi-audio-on-the-raspberry-pi/62689#62689 for reference. More here http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=27213 and http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5062

Screen should never blank out

In

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

add

xset s off         # don't activate screensaver
xset -dpms         # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s noblank     # don't blank the video device

and in

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

change the values for xserver-commands

[SeatDefaults]
xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms

Hide cursor on inactivity

sudo apt-get install unclutter

Source: http://infovore.org/archives/2013/08/09/running-scripts-on-startup-with-your-raspberry-pi/

Automatic network setup via WiFi

http://weworkweplay.com/play/automatically-connect-a-raspberry-pi-to-a-wifi-network/

Disable start of X-Windows

sudo update-rc.d lightdm disable

Backup SD Card

diskutil list
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk1 of=/path/to/backup.img bs=1m

See http://minordiscoveries.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/backing-up-raspberry-pi-sd-card-on-mac-os-x/

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case 'l':
{
  if(strchr(optarg, ':'))
  {
    unsigned int h, m, s;
    if(sscanf(optarg, "%u:%u:%u", &h, &m, &s) == 3)
      m_incr = h*3600 + m*60 + s;
  }
  else
  {
    m_incr = atof(optarg);
  }
  if(m_loop)
    m_loop_from = m_incr; // Set to 0.
}
break;

ts = Time.now()
start = ((ts.hour - 7) % 12) * 3600 + (ts.min * 60) + ts.sec 
system "echo 'Starting omxplayer'"
system "/usr/bin/omxplayer /home/pi/time.mp4 --blank --pos #{start} --no-osd"

and starts player script startplayer.rb

sudo gem install ruby-dbus

http://www.abelectronics.co.uk/products/3/Raspberry-Pi/15/RTC-Pi-Real-time-Clock-Module# https://www.sparkfun.com/products/99

http://www.sundh.com/blog/2013/10/loop-videos-seamlessly-omxplayer/

This is a library

sudo -i npm install forever -g

http://npm.taobao.org/package/omx-manager

Audio

Start script on startup

Install upstart

sudo apt-get install upstart

description "A blinking light" author "Tom Armitage - [email protected]"

start on started mountall stop on shutdown

script export HOME="/home/pi" export BUNDLE_GEMFILE="/home/pi/src/blink/Gemfile" exec bundle exec ruby /home/pi/src/blink/blinken.rb end script

Protect your Raspberry PI SD card, use Read-Only filesystem

https://hallard.me/raspberry-pi-read-only/