Deploying on a Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi single board computers are popular and inexpensive, and make an excellent platform for running ShootPoints-Web in the field.
ShootPoints-Web has been used on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B computers on excavations in Iraq. Because of its good balance of small size, reasonable speed, low power consumption, full-sized USB port, and built-in Wi-Fi, I prefer deploying on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, but it will run equally well on any currently-produced model.
- Download and install the Raspberry Pi Imager app.
- Launch Raspberry Pi Imager, and choose the appropriate device.
- Click the “Choose OS’ button and then “Raspberry Pi OS (other).”
- Select the appropriate Lite version of the Raspberry Pi OS. (For a Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ this is “Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy, 64-bit) Lite.”)
- Choose the storage medium (i.e., the microSD card that you will install in the Raspberry Pi).
- You will use OS customisation, so click the “Edit Settings” button.
- Under the OS Customisation “General” tab set the hostname, username, and password all to “shootpoints.”
- Under the OS Customisation “Services” tab enable SSH with password authentication.
- Save the customizations and then write the image to the microSSD, accepting the fact that any existing data on the storage medium will be lost, and entering your password when prompted.
- Connect the Raspberry Pi to your local network with ethernet and power it on. (Models without an ethernet port will need a USB to ethernet adapter.)