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Raspberry Pi ​

raspberry pi logo

Need a computer? This is a great place to start.

Getting started ​

  • Choose your hardware
  • Choose your operating system
  • Choose any services

Hardware ​

There are many types of Pi computers. Choose the one that best fits your project's use case. At a minimum you'll need:

  • Raspberry Pi Computer
  • Power Supply
  • Memory Card

I also often like having a physical power switch during testing and configuration or if the device will not be powered on all of the time.

Power ​

power supplies

In addition to a good power supply it's important to make sure you have a good powered usb hub before attempting to connect peripherals. Even a wired usb keyboard and mouse can be too much for a pi zero, I've found.

Storage ​

A server should have more memory available.

32GB is good for a server installation.

64GB is good to use for a camera installation. Should use external storage (e.g. network or usb), but it helps to have a local buffer.

Details ​

troubleshooting
GPIO

Operating System ​

Common topics like flashing your SD media for OS installation

OS Selection & Installation

Raspberry Pi OS ​

Raspberry Pi OS is a popular choice.

Download an image from: Raspberry Pi Guide - Quick Start Guide for Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

Raspberry Pi OS Specific Notes

Ubuntu ​

Raspberry Pi specific notes about Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Once you've got your system install, it's time to configure what the system runs: Ubuntu

Monitoring ​

wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh
wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh

Camera ​

Camera Hardware

OS native features ​

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/os.html#using-a-usb-webcam

Motion ​

Motion Eyes / Security

Web cam setup ​

If you want your pi to be able to appear as a webcam device when plugged in via usb, try the following setup.

Showmewebcam looks like it is more up-to-date than geerlingguy's version:

https://github.com/showmewebcam/showmewebcam

As mentioned in

https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-webcam/issues/4

Jeff Geerling's webcam setup

https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-webcam
GitHub - geerlingguy/pi-webcam: Automation to configure a Raspberry Pi as a USB OTG webcam

https://gist.github.com/justinschuldt/36469e2a89d95ef158a8c4df091e9cb4
Directions for setting up a RaspberryPi to act as a generic USB webcam · GitHub
https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/jeff-geerling-raspberry-pi-hq-camera-webcam/
Pi Zero W and HQ camera module used as cheap webcam
https://github.com/geerlingguy
geerlingguy (Jeff Geerling) · GitHub

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=raspberry+pi+hq+camera+maximum+video+rate&ia=web
raspberry pi hq camera maximum video rate at DuckDuckGo
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/raspbian/applications/camera.md
Raspberry Pi Camera Module - Raspberry Pi Documentation
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=canonical&q=use+raspberry+pi+hq+camera+as+web+camera&ia=web
use raspberry pi hq camera as web camera at DuckDuckGo

Projects Using Pi ​

https://github.com/topics/raspberry-pi

Home Assistant ​

https://github.com/home-assistant/core

https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig

Voice Recognition ​

https://github.com/topics/raspberry-pi
raspberry-pi · GitHub Topics · GitHub
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core
GitHub - MycroftAI/mycroft-core: Mycroft Core, the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform.
https://github.com/Picovoice/porcupine
GitHub - Picovoice/porcupine: On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning.

Wireless access point ​

https://github.com/RaspAP/raspap-webgui
GitHub - RaspAP/raspap-webgui: Simple wireless AP setup & management for Debian-based devices
https://www.wireguard.com/
WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel

Time clock ​

aka a Digital Time Keeping System

https://city-of-bloomington.github.io/timetrack/
TimeTrack Raspberry Pi | timetrack

https://github.com/City-of-Bloomington/timetrack
City-of-Bloomington/timetrack: Digital time keeping system with both a web-based calendar entry and a kiosk based badge entry interface

Media server ​

Run docker to allow multiple services on the same server.

Docker image for plex somewhere? Best to just make your own so you know what is being installed.

Spotify ​

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify
GitHub - dtcooper/raspotify: Spotify Connect client for the Raspberry Pi that Just Works™