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Florian Quirin edited this page May 13, 2018 · 26 revisions

Installation

Raspberry Pi 3

Starting from scratch

Installing a fresh Raspbian

  1. Get the latest Raspbian lite (no desktop version): downloads.raspberrypi.org
  2. Get Etcher (portable) to flash Raspbian to your Micro-SD card (it's really easy): etcher.io
  3. Open Etcher, select the Raspbian Zip-file you've downloaded, select your Card-reader with your Micro-SD card as target and start flashing.
  4. After flashing finished remove your Micro-SD from the reader and put it back in (to reload the new file-system) then open the Micro-SD card (should be called "boot") and create an empty file called "ssh" (no file ending). This will make sure that you can login via SSH to your Pi later.
  5. Optionally you can add access to your Wifi (not-recommended for this server), here is a good blog-article about it on Medium or you can deactivate Wifi and Bluetooth to save some resources (recommended). For the latter look for a file called config.txt on your Micro-SD and add (or replace) these lines:
# Disable Wifi
dtoverlay=pi3-disable-wifi
dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt
  1. Put the Micro-SD in your Rasperry Pi 3 and plug it in.

Services

API-Keys

Certain services require an API-key to work like the weather forecast for example. All integrated services usually offer a free API-key for a certain number of calls. Once you've obtained such a key you need to put it inside the config file of the SEPIA assist-server and restart the server to activate it (a more convenient way using the admin web-tools is under consideration).

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