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Install Streembit on Raspberry PI

This readme explains the installation of Raspberry PI, Node.js and the Streembit Zigbee Gateway.

Install the Raspberry PI

Burn the latest Raspbian OS to a micro SD card.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/

Add an ssh file to the Raspbian boot image at the SD card. Step 3 in this tutorial: https://hackernoon.com/raspberry-pi-headless-install-462ccabd75d0

Connect to a WiFi network

List the available WiFi networks

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

Edit the WiFi configuration file

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Set the SSID and WPA-PSK password

network={
    ssid="YOUR_WIFI_NETWORK"
    psk="WIFI_NETWORK_PASSWORD"
}

ifconfig wlan0

If you are connected the "inet addr" should be a 192.168.xxx.xxx IP address

wlan0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:da:38:2b:1c:3d
        inet addr:192.168.1.216 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
        inet6 addr: fe80::8727:5526:a190:b339/64 Scope:Link
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
        RX packets:6917 errors:0 dropped:229 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:2931 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
        RX bytes:10001000 (9.5 MiB) TX bytes:295067 (288.1 KiB)

Login via SSH and configure the device

Login to the Raspberry PI via SSH using your Linux/MAC SSH client or PUTTY on Windows. If you don't have access to the router to lookup the IP address, use the Advanced IP Scanner application to find your Raspberry PI device http://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com.

The default user name: pi, password: raspberry. Once you logged in via SSH:

sudo raspi-config

  1. Enable SSH: select Interfacing Options. Navigate to and select SSH, and select "Yes".

  2. Enable serial port: select Interfacing Options. Navigate to Advanced Options/Serial set "No" to “Would you like a login shell to be accessible over serial?” and select "Yes" to Would you like the serial port hardware to be enabled?" question. Refer to the "For latest Jessie version" section at https://hallard.me/enable-serial-port-on-raspberry-pi/

Check the available serial ports and serial port aliases.

ls -l /dev

ttyS0 should be listed in dev directory.

Install the latest Nodejs from source

To take advantage of the latest Node.js framework we suggest you install Node.js from source.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
cd /usr/local/src

Download the latest Node.js source. Substitute 9.10.0 with the latest Node.js version number.

sudo wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.10.0/node-v9.10.0.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf node-v9.10.0.tar.gz
cd node-v9.10.0
sudo ./configure
sudo make install
node -v

The version should be 9.10.0

sudo npm install -g pm2

Install Streembit

Install git.

sudo apt-get install git

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