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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 [[Wikipedia:IBM PC keyboard|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'.<br>
sudo apt-get install nano

==Updating firmware==
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
sudo wget <nowiki>http://goo.gl/1BOfJ</nowiki> -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 serial-getty@ttyAMA0.service

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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[[Category:Manual]]
[[Category:Install]]
[[Category:Raspberry Pi]]

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