XXX: Load Hivetool on the Pi
Contents
- 1 Get the latest operating system image
- 2 Copy the image to the SD card
- 3 Boot Pi, expand file system, set timezone and hostname
- 4 Install required packages
- 5 Set the ethernet parameters and DNS servers
- 6 Configure apache
- 7 Install the HX711 scale software
- 8 Install the TEMPerHUM software
- 9 Edit the cron table
- 10 Set or change hostname
Get the latest operating system image
Raspbian Wheezy is currently used, although others should work.
The latest image available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads is: 2013-12-20-wheezy-raspbian.zip
- Download the zipped image (approximately 800 MB)
- Calculate the SHA-1 checksum. On Unix/Linux, the command line is:
- sha1sum 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.zip
- This will print out a long hex number which should match the "SHA-1 Checksum" line for the SD image you have downloaded
- Extract the image, with
- unzip 2012-12-20-wheezy-raspbian.zip
Copy the image to the SD card
Make SD card on Unix/Linux system
Detailed instructions: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Flashing_the_SD_Card_using_Linux_.28including_on_a_Pi.21.29
- Determine the device for the card reader (/dev/mmcblk0 on my laptop).
- Copy the image to the SD card:
- dd bs=4M if=2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
Make SD card on Windows system
raspberrypi.org recommends using: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ But be careful. REMOVE any other USB memory devices from your computer. Detailed instructions: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Flashing_the_SD_Card_using_Windows
Boot Pi, expand file system, set timezone and hostname
- Boot Pi and login
- Expand file system, set timezone and hostname
- sudo raspi-config
- Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool (raspi-config)
1 Expand Filesystem Ensures that all of the SD card s 4 Internationalisation Options Set up language and regional sett I2 Change Timezone Set up timezone to match your loc 8 Advanced Options Configure advanced settings A2 Hostname Set the visible name for this Pi
Install required packages
Note: The Pi must be connected to the internet to update or add packages!
- Update before trying to add packages
- sudo apt-get -y update
Note: Running apt-get update does not fix the shellshock bash vulnerability. You must also run: sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
- Get gawk, bc for shell scripts, apache for webserver, libusb to read TEMPerHUMs, graphics library, mySQL if desired.
- sudo apt-get install gawk bc apache2 libusb-dev libgd2-xpm-dev mysql-server
- Now get Graphics for perl. Force the install. Get XML::Simple for commands.
- sudo cpan -f GD
- sudo cpan GD::Text GD::Graph Date::Format XML::Simple
- Make hivetool and htdocs directories.
- sudo mkdir /home/hivetool /var/www/htdocs /home/downloads
- Get the perl code, the shtml files and the patched pm and copy it to the perl module directory
- cd /home/downloads
- sudo git clone https://github.com/hivetools/perl
- sudo cp perl/axestype.pm /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/GD/Graph/axestype.pm
- sudo cp perl/*.pl perl/*.shtml /var/www/htdocs
- Get the hivetool bash scripts and copy them to their proper directory
- sudo git clone https://github.com/hivetools/bash
- sudo cp bash/*.sh /home/hivetool
- get the crontab file
- sudo git clone https://github.com/hivetools/cron
Done installing hivetool files
Set the ethernet parameters and DNS servers
Note: A static IP is only needed for port forwarding through the firewall. If you do not intend to open a hole in the firewall to allow public access to the web server, skip this step and let the Pi obtain an IP from the DHCP server in the router.
- set static ip for port forwarding
- sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces:
- iface eth0 inet dhcp
- iface eth0 inet static
- address 192.168.254.31
- netmask 255.255.255.0
- gateway 192.168.254.254
- Set the dns Servers
- /etc/network/interfaces
- /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
Configure apache
- set up apache to listen on port 8080
- sudo vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf
- add Listen 8080
- add .pl to AddHandler cgi-script
- sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mime.conf
- uncomment #AddHandler cgi-script .cgi and add .pl so it looks like:
- AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
- add Includes to Options:
- sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
- In stanza <Directory /var/www/>
- change
- Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
- to
- Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes
- Add index.shtml to DirectoryIndex:
- sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
- Change
- DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
- to
- DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm index.shtml
- Copy includes.load to enable it
- sudo cp /etc/apache2/mods-available/include.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
- Restart Apache
/etc/rc4.d/S02apache2 restart
Install the HX711 scale software
- Download the software from gitHub
sudo git clone https://github.com/ggurov/hx711 - Change the GPIO pins in hx711.c from 30 and 31
- Select the proper GPIO pins:
- If using P5, change to 28 and 30. This way they are all on one side of P5:
- #define CLOCK_PIN 30
- #define DATA_PIN 28
- If using P1, pick two unused GPIO pins such as:
- #define CLOCK_PIN 24
- #define DATA_PIN 23
- If using P5, change to 28 and 30. This way they are all on one side of P5:
- Compile:
- gcc -o hx711 hx711.c gb_common.o
- Copy hx711 command to /usr/local/bin:
- sudo cp hx711 /usr/local/bin
Install the TEMPerHUM software
tempered can be installed with just the binaries (quicker) or from source (you have the source code to fix bugs)
Install binaries
- get the binaries and libraries
- sudo git clone https://github.com/hivetools/tempered_pi
- copy the files to their directories
- cd tempered_pi
- sudo cp hid-query tempered /usr/local/bin/
- sudo cp libtempered-util.so libtempered-util.so.0 libtempered.so libtempered.so.0 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/
- sudo cp libhidapi-hidraw.so.0 /usr/local/lib/
- sudo cp tempered-util.h tempered.h /usr/local/include/
- run ldconfig (or reboot)
- sudo ldconfig
Install from source
Install from source: http://hivetool.net/node/59
Edit the cron table
The scripts that read the sensors, log the data, and send it off site (if enabled) are run periodically by the scheduler, cron. Cron setup can be done from the command line with crontab. For cron setup and examples, see Sample contab entries
Set or change hostname
If the hostname was not set above using raspi-config, set the hostname:
- Set the local host name
- sudo vi /etc/hostname
- and edit the local host name here, too:
- sudo vi /etc/hosts