Preparing RaspberryPI (Debian-Wheezy) for Domoticz

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To prepare a Raspberry PI (Debian/Wheezy) from scratch to run Domoticz

Download the Wheezy image

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Unix

Follow instructions to prepare an SD-card

http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

Windows

Use the program Win32DiskImager to burn the image to the SD card:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/


Raspbian images released after 2016-11-25: If You downloaded the latest version of Raspbian and You intend to access it using ssh, enable ssh by creating a file with name "ssh" in boot partition of the SD card.

To login via SSH, you can use the application 'Putty'

Get your Rpi up-and running with this SD card

The Raspi-config will start up, perform the following actions:

Option 1. expand Filesystem

Option 2. Change User Password

Option 4. Internationalization options:

Option I1. Change Locale: set locale to en_US.UTF-8
Option I2. Change Timezone: set to appropriate timezone
Option I3. Change Keyboard Layout: Takes a while for the list to appear - stick to the generic layouts unless you have a good reason not to IBM PC Keyboard.

Option 8. Advanced Options:

Option A3. Memory Split: Set to 16M since we don't need a graphical environment
Option A0. Update

Finish the config tool and reboot. 

sudo reboot

Give it at least a minute to expand your root filesystem, then continue

Cleanup

Login as 'pi' and remove unneeded packages. 

sudo apt-get remove cups*
sudo apt-get remove gnome*
sudo apt-get remove x11-common*
sudo apt-get autoremove

Installing updates

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Add some extra packages

sudo apt-get install git-core subversion screen

Install texteditor 'nano', which is much easier to work with than 'vi'.

sudo apt-get install nano

Updating firmware

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
sudo wget http://goo.gl/1BOfJ -O /usr/bin/rpi-update && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update
sudo rpi-update

And reboot again. 

sudo reboot

Options (Optional)

fixed ip-adress

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.1.10 # << change to an ip address in your network
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.0.1.1 # << change to your gateway

Tweaking (Optional)

Free up some memory and cpu cycles: 

sudo nano /etc/inittab

/etc/inittab no longer present in Raspbian Jessie, use; 

 sudo systemctl disable [email protected]

Find the lines: 

4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAMA0 115200 vt100


And replace 'respawn' by 'off' 

4:23:off:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:off:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:off:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

T0:23:off:/sbin/getty -L ttyAMA0 115200 vt100

And make changes active: 

sudo telinit q

Install Domoticz

Follow the instructions at: Installing and running Domoticz on a Raspberry PI

Now backup the SD-card

sudo halt

Unix

Put the card in a Mac or Linux workstation. Find the raw disk device, be very careful not to overwrite your system disk: 

sudo diskutil umount /dev/disk1s1
sudo dd bs=1m if=/dev/rdisk1 of=clean-rpi.img

Windows

Put the card in a windows workstation, and use the program 'Win32DiskImager' again to backup the SD card.

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