This guide serves as a reminder of how to set up a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian - Jessie.
There are a number of ways to do this depending on what your computer is that you will use to create the OS on your SD Card.
Here is a [guide for installing the OS on your SD Card] (https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md).
Now insert the SD Card into your Raspberry Pi, connect the power and let's go.
To get started you will need to connect your Raspberry Pi to the internet. If you are comfortable using the command line then you can type the following, obviously replacing THE-NAME-OF-YOUR-WIFI and YOUR-WIFI-PASSWORD with the actual values:
sudo printf "\niface wlan0 inet dhcp\n\twpa-ssid \"THE-NAME-OF-YOUR-WIFI\"\n\twpa-psk \"YOUR-WIFI-PASSWORD\"" >> /etc/network/interfaces
If you're not comfortable then just use the
Once you have successfully connected to the internet you will need to clone this repository into your home directory.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/bencarter78/pi-setup.git
To begin with we will need to set up a few basics to make things easier:
- Updating and upgrading the core packages
- Creating some bash aliases
- Making Vim (the terminal editor I prefer to use) a little nicer to work with
- Installing zip
To run this simply type
sudo bash init.sh
This is based on the [Waveshare 5inch HDMI LCD] (http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/5inch_HDMI_LCD).
To install the required drivers and set up just run
sudo bash touchscreen.sh
Once this is complete you will need to calibrate the screen by clicking the "Menu" button on the task bar, choose "Preference" -> "Calibrate Touchscreen" and folow the on-screen instructions.
If you would like an on-screen keyboard then you can access the keyboard:
Menu >> Accessories >> Keyboard
Or if the Keyboard option is not showing go to the following and ensure Keyboard is checked.
Menu >> Preferences >> Main Menu Editor
There is a great [getting started guide for the Pi camera] (https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-picamera/worksheet/) which also gives you some python scripts that will show you how to start recording videos and images. The scripts available are:
- camera/preview.py (Shows a preview of the camera)
- camera/photo.py (Takes a photo*)
- camera/video.py (Yep, you guessed it, records a video*)
- camera/transparency.py (Alters the transparentcy of the captured video.)
* Saved to a directory called pi-camera on your desktop.
Enter the terminal using sudo raspi-config and selecting Enable camera. It will probably ask you to reboot the Raspberry Pi so select Yes.
Go to Menu >> Preferences >> Raspberry Pi Configuration click the Interfaces tab and check Camera so that it is enabled.
There are some scripts to get you started in the camera directory of this repository. To run any of them simply run the following in the Terminal.
python camera/name-of-the-file
When you run python camera/video.py, you can view the captured video by running the following command in the Terminal.
omxplayer video.h264