Configuring a raspberry pi for DoseNet

Download/Install Raspian

• There are several options for the operating system for a Raspberry Pi in general, but all of our development and testing has been done using Raspian, the officially supported OS for Raspberry Pis, which you can find here
• There is also helpful documentation on how to copy the OS image to the SD card for your Raspberry Pi

Setting up some basics

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade
• sudo apt-get install -y screen isc-dhcp-server lighttpd

Basic Python packages needed

• sudo apt-get install -y python python-dev python-pip
• sudo pip install ipython
• sudo pip install RPIO
• sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio
• sudo pip install datetime pycrypto jupyter
• sudo pip install --upgrade numpy
• sudo pip install matplotlib

DoseNet code

• cd ~; git clone https://github.com/bearing/dosenet-raspberrypi.git
  • This will be enough to run all of our data acquisition for our sensors
• cd ~; git clone https://github.com/bearing/dosenet-web.git
  • Provide tools/pages for using the RPi to host a basic web-based display of DoseNet and a jupyter notebook interface that can be viewed when connected to the RPi over the AdHoc network for data analysis
• cd ~; git clone https://github.com/bearing/dosenet-analysis.git
  • All of the software tools and jupyter notebooks used for data analysis
• Instructions for setting up the RPi to create an AdHoc network can be found here
• Instructions for setting the RPi up to host a jupyter notebook and how to view it can be found here

Configuring the device for the DoseNet network

Adding the DoseNet sending service

• sudo ln -s ~/dosenet-raspberrypi/main.sh /etc/init.d/main.sh
• cd /etc/init.d
• sudo update-rc.d -f main.sh remove
• sudo update-rc.d main.sh defaults This copies the DoseNet service to the startup folder and updates other system entries as appropriate. See /etc/rc2.d/ etc. for the relevant symbolic links made (no action should be taken).

Location specific info/files

• The config (config.csv) and public key (id_rsa_lbl.pub) files required for connecting to our data server and are provided by the DoseNet team when a new device is ready to be added to the network.
• Once received, these should be copied to ~/config/