You can also setup PeachCloud by installing Debian onto an sd card, and then installing and running peach-config. This is essentially how the PeachCloud disc image is created (see peach-img-builder).
Here are the steps for installing peach-config on Debian.
Download the latest Debian Buster preview image for RPi3 and flash it to an SD card.
Note: Be sure to use the correct device location in the dd command, otherwise you risk wiping another connected USB device. sudo dmesg | tail can be run after plugging in the SD card to determine the correct device location:
wget https://raspi.debian.net/verified/20200831_raspi_3.img.xz
xzcat 20200831_raspi_3.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64k oflag=dsync status=progressOn Mac OS, use the following command to flash the SD card:
xzcat 20200831_raspi_3.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdcarddisc
Alternatively, use Etcher.
Note: If the above image link stops working, you can find the complete list of Raspberry Pi Debian images here.
Use the following commands to connect to a local WiFi network over the wlan0 interface (assuming eth0 connection is not possible):
# username
root
# password (by default raspberry debian requires no password, so we set the password for root here)
passwd
# set interface up (run command twice if you receive 'link is not ready' error on first try)
ip link set wlan0 up
# append ssid and password for wifi access point
wpa_passphrase <SSID> <PASS> > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
# open wpa_supplicant.conf
nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf[ Add the following two lines to top of file ]
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
[ Save and exit ]
# open network interfaces config
nano /etc/network/interfaces[ Add the following lines to the file ]
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
[ Save and exit ]
reboot now
[ Pi should now be connected to the WiFi network ]
You can run the following one-liner to install peach-cloud (TODO: make this install peachcloud instead of rust):
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Alternatively, you can run the commands in the install script manually.
Once the setup script has been run, connect to the system remotely over the local network using ssh or mosh:
ssh [email protected] or mosh [email protected]
There is a file with detailed instructions on how to connect via a direct ethernet cable located in docs/direct-ethernet-setup.md
Networking is handled by wpa_supplicant and systemd-networkd.
The RPi connects to other networks with the wlan0 interface and deploys an access point on the ap0 interface. Only one of these modes is active at a time (client or access point). The RPi boots in client mode by default.
To switch to access point mode:
sudo systemctl start [email protected]
To switch to client mode:
sudo systemctl start [email protected]
Note: No stopping of services or rebooting is required.
To enable access point mode on boot:
sudo systemctl disable [email protected]
sudo systemctl enable [email protected]A standalone networking configuration script is included in this repository (scripts/setup_networking.py). Network-related documentation can also be found in this repository (docs).
This repository also contains a script for automatically starting an access point on ap0 if the wlan0 service is active but not connected (scripts/ap_auto_deploy.sh). The executable script is installed at /usr/local/bin/ap_auto_deploy and can either be run once-off or scheduled for repeated execution using a systemd service file and timer file (conf/network/ap-auto-deploy.service and conf/network/ap-auto-deploy.timer). When the timer is enabled for repeated execution, the script is automatically run 60 seconds after boot and every 180 seconds after that.
To stop and disable the access point auto deploy service:
sudo systemctl stop ap-auto-deploy.timer
sudo systemctl disable ap-auto-deploy.timerYou may encounter DNS issues if your system time is inaccurate. Please refer to this StackExchange answer for details. The steps to remedy the situation are offered here in brief:
sudo -Es
timedatectl set-ntp 0
# edit this line according to your current date & time
timedatectl set-time "2021-01-13 11:37:10"
timedatectl set-ntp 1
exit