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Raspberry Pi Manual Setup Instructions

ergobot edited this page Jan 21, 2015 · 54 revisions

#Summary This document contains the instructions to setup the host software on a raspberry pi running a new image of raspian wheezy.

+Install RXTX and xserver utils +Disable sleep/screensaver
+Setup application to start on boot

Future In an effort to make things as simple as possible, eventually we'll make an image. After finalizing the manual steps needed to make the host work on a raspberry pi, we would like to find a way to create a raspian wheezy image with this software preinstalled.

#Install RXTX and xserver utils sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install librxtx-java
sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils #Disable sleep/screensaver Instructions to disable the sleep/screensaver on the pi

sudo nano /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Add the following lines to the end of the document

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

Save and exit nano, then enter the following commands

sudo sed -i 's/#xserver-command=X/xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms'/ /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
sudo sed -i 's/POWERDOWN_TIME=30/POWERDOWN_TIME=0'/ /etc/kbd/config
sudo sed -i 's/BLANK_TIME=30/BLANK_TIME=0'/ /etc/kbd/config

#Setup application to start on boot Instructions to start the Creation-Workshop-Host on boot Enter the following commands mkdir ~/.config/autostart touch ~/.config/autostart/cwhost.desktop nano ~/.config/autostart/cwhost.desktop Add the following lines to the file [Desktop Entry]
Type=Application Exec=Exec=/home/pi/start.sh

#Install the application Run the following commands

#Reboot sudo reboot

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