Raspberry Pi
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
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
Operating System
Common topics like flashing your SD media for OS 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
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
Camera
OS native features
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/os.html#using-a-usb-webcam
Motion
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™