Setting up the Raspberry Pi

There are plenty of great setup tutorials. Here are the ones I use to setup the pi.

• Enable Pi to boot from USB.
• Pick the OS you plan to use from raspberrypi site..
  • If you prefer headless for iot settings pick “Raspberry Pi OS Lite”.
• Drop the OS on a flash drive. Several options for Windows. I started with Etcher (src on Github) but moved to Raspberry Pi Imager which works with both USB and SD media. Another option is WinFlashTool.

Headless tweaks

Poached from here

• Step 1: Enable ssh from WSL Assuming the drive letter is e:
  sudo mkdir -p /mnt/e && sudo mount -t drvfs e: /mnt/e

touch /mnt/e/ssh

• Step 2: Setup Wifi SSID and keys in /mnt/e/wpa_supplicant.conf add the following

    country=US
    ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev 
    update_config=1
    network={
        ssid="YourNetworkSSID"
        psk="Your Network's Passphrase"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    }

Remove USB drive and boot Pi

The defaults will be” system name -> raspberrypi username -> pi password -> raspberry

NOTE: Once you boot, be sure to change your password and lock down ssh access.

Setting up dev environment and .Net for Pi

• sudo apt-get install git
• timedatectl list-timezones sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles

Settup up Snap Store

Adding the Snap store simplifies adding / updating packages. Full instructions for rPi are here

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install core
sudo snap install snapd
sudo reboot

To Refresh a store package

• snap refresh

• snap list

• powershell

wget $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/latest | grep "browser_download_url.*linux-arm32.tar.gz" | cut -d '"' -f 4)
mkdir ~/powershell
tar -xvf ./powershell*.tar.gz -C ~/powershell
sudo ln -s ~/powershell/pwsh /usr/bin/pwsh

• .net core
  • helpful scripts https://github.com/pjgpetecodes/

    wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pjgpetecodes/dotnet6pi/master/install.sh | sudo bash
    

Assembling the box

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linux maintenence sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade

creating the autoststart script - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/systemd.md