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The Raspberry Pi Computer

Author: Peter Bauer

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Table of contents 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................3 2. Abbreviations and Terms..................................................................................................................4 3. Hardware Overview Raspberry Pi Typ B.........................................................................................6 3.1 The LED's of the Raspberry Pi..................................................................................................7 3.2 Type B Revisionen.....................................................................................................................7 4. Software Overview Raspberry Pi.....................................................................................................8 4.1 Preparing the SD card on a Windows computer........................................................................8 4.2 Preparing the SD card on a Linux computer ...........................................................................10 4.3 Preparing the SD card on a Mac OS X computer ...................................................................11 4.4 Content of the boot Partition....................................................................................................12 4.5 RISC OS on the Raspberry PI..................................................................................................13 5. Startup of the Raspberry Pi.............................................................................................................14 5.1 Configuration via raspi-config script.......................................................................................15 6. The Raspberry Pi in Detail.............................................................................................................17 6.1 Debian or Raspbian as operating system ................................................................................17 6.1.1 Connect to LAN...............................................................................................................18 6.1.2 Audio and Video output on RPI using Debian.................................................................21 6.1.3 Configuration via config.txt.............................................................................................22 6.2 The GPIO connector ...............................................................................................................23 6.2.1 Control GPIO Pins with Python and Shellscript..............................................................24 6.4 Report Linux bugs .................................................................................................................25 7. Resources for the Raspberry Pi on the Internet .............................................................................26

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1. INTRODUCTION This book should serve as a hobbyists help for getting started with the Raspberry PI. It was created because there is a wealth of information on the Internet, but unfortunately everything around is very scattered and an orderly book is the best way to describe something and learn something. In this book RPI is used as a shortcut for Raspberry Pi. Currently there are two different Types of the RPI called the Model A and Model B. Model A has one USB connector und no Ethernet connector. Model B has two USB connectors and one Ethernet interface. The software of the RPI is still in development, with Raspbian the developers succeeded to produce a stable Linux distribution with good performance. It's up to the user to explore this Linux distribution and to find the right program for a particular purpose. For pure multimedia playback it is worthwhile taking a look at Raspbmc. Currently the operation of Raspbmc is still a little lame, here is still some potential for improvement. If you liked this little book, you can purchase an extended version via email for 2 Euro. For questions about the RPI I am also available by email. http://bitkistl.blogspot.co.at/2013/01/raspberry-pi-e-book.html If you found this book useful you can donate via Paypal to support this E-Book project. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QNKHGXF3MDV9W

Have fun with the Raspberry Pi, Peter Bauer

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2. Abbreviations and Terms API

Application Programming Interface

APT

Advanced Packaging Tool, a software package management tool for Linux. With APT single programs can be installed or the whole Linux distribution can be updated.

ARM

Advanced Risc Machines, british Chip Design Developer. The ARM Chips are produced from many companies.

armel

Name of the current port of Debian for the ARM v6 architecture

armhf

"hard float" means support for fast floating point calculations via hardware

Raspbian

Port of the Debian Operating system, this port is optimized for the skills of the RPI CPU.

CPU

Central Processing Unit

GPU

Graphics processor, Broadcom Videocore IV. Can play Videos in high definition and supports acceleration of graphics. Supported Standards are OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVG 1.1. The GPU must share the available RAM with the CPU. The RAM for the GPU is configurable in the size of 32,64 or 128 MB.

IP

Internet Protocol

IRC

Internet Relay Chat, it is possible to chat with the developers and other users by the use of an IRC Client program.

OpenGL ES 3D API for embedded systems OpenVG

2D API for Vektor- and Bitmap graphics

binary blob

Software which is not Open Source, the RPI uses a binary blob to control the GPU. The Raspberry Pi Foundation delivers this binary blob with all linux images.

RPI

Raspberry Pi Computer, a product of the Raspberry Pi Foundation

USB 2.0

Universal Serial Bus - here mouse, keyboard and other devices are connected. If you need more than two connectos or more then 100 mA current an active USB Hub is required.

LED

Light emitting Diode

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HDMI

High Definition Multimedia Interface (Version 1.3a)

RAM

Random Access Memory, the main memory of the RPI is 256 (Model A) or 512 MByte (Model B).

SD Card

Secure Digital Memory Card The RPI boots from an SD card. If you buy an SD card its good to choose a class 4 or 6 card. These are known to work good with the RPI.

RCA

Radio Corporation of America, analogue video connector. Here a cable to a TV with Cinch Plug can be connected.

CSI

Camera Serial Interface, this year a camera module with 5 Megapixels should be available. It should cost around 25 Euros.

DSI

Display Serial Interface, not documented for the end user

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Is used to get a valid IP Address.

GPIO

General Purpose Input/Output

GUI

Graphical User Interface, some Linux programs have no GUI e.g.: omxplayer (Multimedia Player).

JTAG

Joint Test Action Group Connector for Test and Debugging of the RPI Hardware. This is an interface for the developers.

BCM 2835

SoC contains CPU,GPU and FPU of the RPI from Broadcom. The CPU computes with 32 Bit and a clock rate of 700 Mhz. This CPU(ARM1176JZFS) is from the architectural point of view an ARM11 based on the ARM v6 family.

overclocking The RPI can be overclocked up to 1Ghz. This can be done with the script raspi-config. SoC

System on Chip, means that different functions are integrated on one chip

UNIX

multiuser operating system, the Open Source variant is called Linux

XBMC

Open Source Media Player, there are several port for the RPI (Raspbmc, OpenELEC, XBian)

X Windows also known as X11 is the window manager of Unix and Linux

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3. Hardware Overview Raspberry Pi Typ B Ethernet

USB 2.0 2x

RPI Typ B: S LED's

Audio Output 3,5 mm jack

CSI camera connector

RCA Video output HDMI output

GPIO Input and output

BCM 2835 ARM 11 700 MHz

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DSI Display connector

Micro USB Power supply 5 Volt, 1 Ampere

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3.1 The LED's of the Raspberry Pi The RPI has 5 LEDs which show the state of the device. OK

green Blinks during Boot and during SD card access

PWR red

PowerOn, ist directly connected to the 3,3V voltage of the RPI

FDX green FullDuplex LNK green Blinks, off during Ethernet activity 10M

yellow 100 Mbit LED

3.2 Type B Revisionen Model und Revisionen Model B Revision 1.0 Model B Revision 1.0 Model B Revision 2.0

Code(s) 2 3 4, 5, 6

comment no polyfuses, D14 removed with 2,5 mm mounting holes

Request of CPU Version and RPI serial number via terminal: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : BogoMIPS : Features : CPU implementer : CPU architecture: CPU variant : CPU part : CPU revision :

ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) 697.95 swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls 0x41 7 0x0 0xb76 7

Hardware Revision

: BCM2708 : 0002

Serial

: 0000000025cd2f93

Since October 2012 the RPI Model B is deliverd with 512 MB RAM.

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4. Software Overview Raspberry Pi There are several unix like operating systems for the RPI and there is an operating system called RISC OS that has its origin at the developers of the first ARM chips. The Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends the use of the following Linux Distributions and offers these for Download: •

Debian 7 ("Wheezy")

/* Soft Float (slow floating point calculations) Oracle JVM requires this

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Raspbian ("Wheezy")

/* has its origin in Debian 7 - recommended Distribution of the RPI Foundation

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Arch Linux ARM

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QtonPi

Download link for the operating system images for the RPI: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads For booting the RPI a SD card is necessary. The RPI Foundation recommends a SD card with 4 GB. For flashing the image to the SD card there are programs for the PC running Winodws, Mac OS X or Linux.

4.1 Preparing the SD card on a Windows computer You need a SD Cardreader/writer, the Win32DiskImager and the operating system image. 1. Download the operating system image 2. Unzip the file *.zip to *.img 3. Insert the SD Card in your SD Cardreader and remember the drive letter. 4. Download Win32DiskImager , the download links are on the right side. 5. Unzip the Win32DiskImager and start it. 6. Select the file *.img 7. Select the drive letter in the device box (Attention: When you select the wrong drive letter your harddisc can be damaged) 8. Click write und wait for the completion 9. Quit the Win32DiskImager und take out the SD card from your Cardreader. 10. Insert the SD Card in your RPI and connect the power supply. The RPI should boot now.

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Alternative methode if your RPI does not boot: 1. Download the operating system image 2. Unzip the file *.zip to *.img 3. Insert the SD Card in your SD Cardreader and remember the drive letter. 4. Download the program http://shounen.ru/soft/flashnul/ and unzip it. 5. Start button > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt (start with right mouse click as Admin) 6. C:/flashnul/flashnul.exe -p Available physical drives: 0 1

size = 250059350016 (232 Gb) size = 1990197248 (1898 Mb)

--> SD Card values

Available logical disks: C:\ D:\ F:\ G:\ H:\ Press ENTER to exit.

7. C:/flashnul/flashnul.exe 1 -L C://*.img (The number 1 is the number of your SD Card and was printed by the previous command on the left side) If you get the error message "access denied" try it again with the assigned drive letter.

C:/flashnul/flashnul.exe H: -L C://*.img

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4.2 Preparing the SD card on a Linux computer 1. Download the operating system image 2. Unzip the file *.zip to *.img 3. Check with the command df -h which discs are mounted 4. Insert the SD Card in your SD Cardreader 5. Check again with df -h which disc are mounted The newly added disc is your SD Card 6. enter as root user: unmount /dev/sdd1 /* Could have a different name The unmount is necessary for the following command 7. enter as root user: dd bs=1M if=~//*.img of=/dev/sdd After the "if" (short for input file) the filename and path for the image files must be entered The dd command has no process indicator and can take a while 8. enter command: sync To ensure that all data are written to the SD Card and you can safely remove the SD Card from the SD Cardreader 9. Insert the SD Card in your RPI and connect the power supply. The RPI should boot now.

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4.3 Preparing the SD card on a Mac OS X computer 1. Download the operating system image 2. Unzip the file *.zip to *.img 3. Start df -h vom Terminal 4. Insert the SD card in your SD cardreader 5. Check with df -h which discs are mountet The newly added discs is your SD card Remember the discs name e.g. /dev/disk3s1 6. Unmount this disc commad: diskutil unmount /dev/disk3s1 7. Determine the disc name for the raw device: /dev/disk3s1 --> /dev/rdisk3 (disk --> rdisk, s1 is leaved off) 8. command: sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads//*.img of=/dev/rdisk3 After the "if" (short for input file) the filename and path for the image files must be entered 9. enter command: diskutil eject /dev/rdisk3 10. Insert the SD Card in your RPI and connect the power supply. The RPI should boot now.

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4.4 Content of the boot Partition The boot partition of the SD card is formatted as FAT32 (data are readable form Windows PC) It contains the following files: •

bootcode.bin

2nd stage bootloader, starts with switched off SDRAM

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loader.bin

3rd stage bootloader, starts with activated SDRAM

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start.elf

GPU firmware image, provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation

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kernel.img

default Linux operating system kernel

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kernel_cutdown.img cutdown Kernel

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kernel_emergency.img

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cmdline.txt

Kernel version for emergency (kernel.img does not work)

Parameter for the Kernel

Optional files: •

config.txt

a configuration file which is read by the GPU on boot You can change the Video Mode, the System clock and voltages

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vlls folder

optional GPU programs (e.g. codecs)

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4.5 RISC OS on the Raspberry PI Since October 2012 RISC OS is released for the RPI. RISC OS was originally developed for the Acorn Archimedes and the Risc PC. This operating system was running on the first types of the ARM processor from ARM2 up to the StrongArm. The advantages of RISC OS can be explained quickly: •

uses low resources, most of the RISC OS programs do not require a fast processor, do not use many memory and do not require a large harddsisc

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RISC OS boots in just about 10 seconds in a graphical desktop

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for operation a three key mouse is required, the keys have the function select, menu and adjust

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the configuration of the operating system is done completely via the desktop GUI

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RISC OS is a single user, multi tasking operating system. It uses cooperative multitasking. This means that a single program gives control to the next program when it has finished its task.

Release Note und Download: https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2012/10/26/risc-os-pi-released-risc-os-for-the-raspberry-pi http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/riscos/

The Installation of the operating system to the SD card is done like in chapter 4.1 bis 4.3. RISC OS includes some useful applications: •

the slim Webbrowser Netsurf (Youtube does not work)

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Draw, Paint and Edit for drawing and editing

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SwiftJPEG, ChangeFSI for viewing and conversion of pictures

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Omniclient to access fileshares (Samba or CIFS)

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a paket manager and App Store (in Development) named Store. With the paket manager and the App Store many additional programs can be installed, many of them are free of cost

RISC OS is not good in: •

playing videos ist slow, the GPU is not used

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5. Startup of the Raspberry Pi You will need the following things to startup the Raspberry Pi for the first time: •

USB keyboard und USB mouse. The current is limited to 100 mA per USB connector

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Prepared SD card with the operating system (see chapter 4)

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A TV with HDMI or Composite connector or monitor with HDMI connector (perhaps an adapter from HDMI to DVI if your monitor has such a connector) VGA is not supported by the RPI !

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A power supply with micro USB plug. The power supply should supply at least 700 mA at 5 Volt. Der RPI has a fuse rated with 1100 mA on the PCB.

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One ethernet lan cabel (optional)

A good overview with pictures can be found here: http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/03/raspberry-pi-cables-connectors/ Insert the prepared SD card into your RPI, plug in all required cables. It is a good idea to plug in the power supply lastly. Your RPI boots and you should be able to watch the boot process in your monitor. If your RPI is connected with a lan cable to your network it will try to obtain an IP address via DHCP. Now you can login with username and password. For Debian Linux or Raspbian the username is "pi" and the password is "raspberry"

With the command: startx you can now start the desktop GUI The valid passwords for your SD card image can be found at the Raspberry Downloads http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads With the command sudo you can get Superuser (root user) rights

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5.1 Configuration via raspi-config script Debian 7 and Raspbian: command: sudo raspi-config • info - Informaion about this tool Displays a short text about the raspi-config program. • expand_rootfs - Expand root partition to fill SD card The images for the RPI fit nicely on a 4 GB SD card. If you use a larger SD card you need to enlarge your system partition or you make an additional partition. This is necessary when you want to use the additional free space. This menu option does all the work. After invoking this option a reboot is required to activate the resizing of the partition, this may take some time. • overscan - Change overscan This allows us to switch on or off the oversacan. When overscan is enabled the RPI generates a black border around the visible screen. This may be useful for some TV sets. For newer TV sets and TFT monitors overscan can be set to disabled. Changes will become effective after reboot. • configure_keyboard - Set keyboard layout Here the keyboard layout can be choosen. You can choose the keyboard layout from a list. If you can't find your keyboard just choose a generic 105-key one. You also need to select your language version. • change_pass - Change password for 'pi' user The user 'pi' is per default present on the RPI system. The user is there to do every days work. With this option you can change the password for this user. • change_locale - Set locale This option sets the character set and language of the system. When set to your language the programs will display texts in your language if available. • change_timezone - Set timezone Here you can choose your timezone. • memory_split - Change memory split The 256 or 512 MB main memory of your RPI are shared between the CPU and GPU. Currently you can select one of four memory splits. These reserve 32\64\128\256 MB for the GPU, the rest for the ARM11 CPU. When you don't use expensive graphics the 32 MB memory split will work. For a media center or 3D graphics the 128 MB memory split will fit better. Changes will become effective after reboot. The default value is 64 MB.

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• overclock - configure overclocking The RPI can be overclocked dynamically in several steps. Dynamically meens that the RPI is overclocked on demand. The software also takes care of the temperature of the CPU, the temperature is limited to 85 degrees celsius. If you find that your RPI does not run stable with the the overclock you are using, just try a lower one. There exists widgets for the LXDE Desktop which display the clock frequency and the temperature. When your RPI has a problem with overclockking during boot, you can switch off overclocking by pressing the shift key. Afterwards a reconfiguration of overcocking can be done. • ssh - Enable or disable ssh server By using SSH you can access a text based console (shell) over the network. You can use for example the putty program to access your RPI from a remote PC. The connection is encrypted per default. To allow this access the SSH server program on the RPI must run. • boot_behaviour - Start desktop on boot? Here you can choose to automatically start the desktop during boot. If you don't choose to start the desktop you can start it later by invoking the startx command from the shell. • update - Try to upgrade raspi-config If your RPI is connected to your home network the raspi-config script itself can be updated to the newest version which may offer enhanced or new functionality.

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6. The Raspberry Pi in Detail 6.1 Debian or Raspbian as operating system Debian Linux for ARM contains about 35.000 software packages If your RPI is connected to the Internet you can check this with the following command. apt-cache pkgnames

/* all available packages are listed

If you want to know the currently installed packages: command: dpkg -l

/* alle installed packages are listed

If you would like to install software XXX. Here you need root user rights. command: sudo -i

/* now you have root rights

command: apt-cache search /* search for packages apt-get install

/* install software packages

apt-get remove

/* remove software packages

apt-get purge

/* remove software package and its configuraton files

With apt-get update the database of software packages can be updated. This is necessary before you apt-get upgrade the whole Linux Distribution. If you want to know which files are installed for a particular software package: dpkg -L

/* list files for a package

Details about Debian and the ARM Port can be found here: http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/index.de.html

sudo apt-get install synaptic

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/* install paket management tool with GUI /* LXDE -> Administration -> Synaptic

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6.1.1 Connect to LAN hostname -I /*What IP Addresse has my RPI ? ifconfig

/*What state have my network interfaces

pi@raspberrypi:~$ ifconfig eth0

Link encap:Ethernet

Hardware Adresse b8:27:eb:2b:c3:50

inet Adresse:192.168.1.25

Bcast:192.168.255.255

Maske:255.255.0.0

inet6-Adresse: fe80::ba27:ebff:fe2b:c350/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST

MTU:1500

Metrik:1

RX packets:2182737 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:563997 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 RX bytes:3195864956 (2.9 GiB) lo

TX bytes:57555644 (54.8 MiB)

Link encap:Lokale Schleife inet Adresse:127.0.0.1

Maske:255.0.0.0

inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine UP LOOPBACK RUNNING

MTU:16436

Metrik:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

In the section eth0 see inet address for the IP address and the subnet mask. The lo (loopback Interface) serves the local communication. The IP configuration for the LAN can be found in the following two files: /etc/network/interfaces /etc/resolv.conf

/* interface configuration /* DNS server entries

/etc/network/interfaces when using DHCP: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp /* DHCP vorhanden

/etc/resolv.conf: nameserver

/* In most cases IP-Address of the router

/etc/network/interfaces when using a fixed IP-Configuration: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static /* IP address

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/* IP address of the RPI /* In home network mostly 255.255.255.0 /* IP address of the router

address netmask gateway

After changing the network configuration a restart of the network services is necessary sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart If the network interface is not working try the following: sudo ifdown eth0

/* deactivate interface

and sudo ifup eth0

/* activate interface

With the Ping command you can test if packets are transmitted and answered ping -c1 www.google.at

/* test if network endpoint answes

PING www.google.at (173.194.35.183) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from muc03s02-in-f23.1e100.net (173.194.35.183): icmp_req=1 ttl=52 time=34.2 ms --- www.google.at ping statistics --1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 34.293/34.293/34.293/0.000 ms

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With the program lsof (list open files) you can list the running Internet services and the application running behind. If lsof is not yet installed on your RPI you can install it with sudo apt-get install lsof. pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo lsof -i COMMAND

PID USER

FD

TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME

ntpd

1369

ntp

16u

IPv4

3473

0t0

UDP *:ntp

ntpd

1369

ntp

17u

IPv4

3477

0t0

UDP localhost:ntp

ntpd

1369

ntp

19u

IPv4

4118

0t0

UDP raspberrypi:ntp

dhclient 1593 root

9u

IPv4

3932

0t0

UDP *:bootpc

dhclient 1593 root

20u

IPv4

3917

0t0

UDP *:32549

3u

IPv4

4111

0t0

TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)

sshd

1635 root

Of particular interest are the "listening sockets", those are the TCP / IP ports where Applications provides service. In our example it is only the application sshd (secure shell daemon). The protocol ssh provides login option on the Internet to a shell.

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6.1.2 Audio and Video output on RPI using Debian The RPI supports the sound through the ALSA sound system. Sound output can either be via the 3.5 mm stereo jack or via HDMI. The default is auto which outputs via HDMI if possible. play test sample: sudo aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav configure audio output: sudo amixer cset numid=3 n is 0=auto, 1=jack connector, 2=hdmi. The omxplayer ist pre installed and can play audio and video files. Since August 2012 omxplayer and the XBMC variants plays MPEG-2 und VC-1 coded videos. The required codecs can be bought from the Raspberry PI Foundation for a small amount. http://www.raspberrypi.com/

/*Raspberry Pi Store

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ omxplayer .mp3 file : *.mp3 reult 0 format mp3 audio streams 1 video streams 0 chapters 0 subtitles 0 Audio codec mp3 channels 2 samplerate 44100 bitspersample 16 Subtitle count : 0 state off : index 0 Supported hardware accelerated video formats: MPEG-2,MPEG-4,VC-1 and H264 With apt-get install mplayer you can install an additional media player. Mplayer is not hardware accelerated but videos (MPEG 2) with low res (e.g. 640x480) are ok. On my RPI I need to use the following options: mplayer -ao sdl

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6.1.3 Configuration via config.txt sudo nano /boot/config.txt /* change configuration sudo reboot /* Restart the RPI When changing the configurtion a reboot is required. # uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode #hdmi_safe=1 # uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible # and your display can output without overscan disable_overscan=1 # uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console # goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border #overscan_left=16 #overscan_right=16 #overscan_top=16 #overscan_bottom=16 # uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus # overscan. (sehr nützlich wenn Ihnen die Bildschirmdarstellung zu klein ist) framebuffer_width=1280 framebuffer_height=720 # uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output #hdmi_force_hotplug=1 # uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA) #hdmi_group=1 #hdmi_mode=1 # uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in # DMT (computer monitor) modes #hdmi_drive=2 # uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or # no display #config_hdmi_boost=4 # uncomment for composite PAL #sdtv_mode=2 #uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default. #arm_freq=800 #for more options see http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt

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6.2 The GPIO connector The RPI has a 26 pin connector with freely programable I/O Pins. The connector has two rows with 13 pins. PIN 1 is clearly marked on the PCB. The numbering works with even numbers on the top row and odd numbers on the bottom row. PIN 1 carries 3V3 with a maximum curremt of 50 mA. PIN 2 carries 5V which are directly connected to the power supply. Each I/O Pin can source a maximum of 16 mA Attention: Most I/O Pins are connected direct to the Broadcom chip, a short circuit can damage your RPI. http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-43484/l/raspberry-pi-gpio-expansion--low-levelperipherals ... Details about the GPIO connector at Element14 Assignment of the Pins (REV 1 and REV 2 Boards are different): Pins marked DNC (do not connect) should not be used.

Here are 8 I/O Pins, and the I2C,SPI and UART Pins. The control of the pins can be done easily with the programming language Python. This requires the installation of a library. http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/05/install-rpi-gpio-python-library/

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6.2.1 Control GPIO Pins with Python and Shellscript Python script: import RPi.GPIO as GPIO # configure GPIO Pins - one input and one output GPIO.setup(11, GPIO.IN) GPIO.setup(12, GPIO.OUT) # read input from pin 11 input_value = GPIO.input(11) # output to Pin 12 GPIO.output(12, True)

The Numbering of the Pins 11 and 12 in this example refers to the physical Pins GPIO 17 and GPIO 18 see picture. Shell script: #!/bin/sh # # # # # # #

GPIO numbers should be from this list 0, 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 Note that the GPIO numbers that you program here refer to the pins of the BCM2835 and *not* the numbers on the pin header. So, if you want to activate GPIO7 on the header you should be using GPIO4 in this script. Likewise if you want to activate GPIO0 on the header you should be using GPIO17 here.

# set up GPIO 4 and set to output echo "4" > /sys/class/gpio/export echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio4/direction # set up GPIO 7 and set to input echo "7" > /sys/class/gpio/export echo "in" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio7/direction # write output echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio4/value # read from input cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio7/value # clean up echo "4" > /sys/class/gpio/unexport echo "7" > /sys/class/gpio/unexport

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6.4 Report Linux bugs If you use the RPI and install a lot of hardware and software packages, you can easily discover an error. Depending on the Linux distribution, there are several ways to report the error. Before writing a bug report it is good to investigate whether this error may have been reported by of another user. Important: Only known errors can be corrected, so do not be shy when writing error messages. Debian: Error Database:

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/

Program for writing Error report:

reportbug

Raspbian: Error Database: Report an Error:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian Raspberry Pi Forum in section Raspbian and on IRC

Archlinux: Error Database: Report an Error:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/ register with the error database and login

It is possible to request features in the form of an error message. It is also useful to report errors in the documentation (e.g. man pages are sometimes incomplete).

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7. Resources for the Raspberry Pi on the Internet http://www.raspberrypi.org/

The Homepage of the Raspberry Pi Foundation

http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Hub

RPI Wiki in several languages

http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals

working Hardware

http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi Datasheets and more http://www.raspbian.org/

Linux variant optimized for the RPI

http://www.raspbmc.com

Linux variant for multimedia

http://rastrack.ryanteck.org.uk/

The RPI Tracker, where is already an RPI ?

http://www.themagpi.com/

monthly Magazin

IRC channels:

Chat with the developers

#raspberrypi, #raspbian

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