Raspberry Pi

Make auto login

so can use VNC without having to plug in screen, mouse, keyboard after boot:

  1. Go to Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration > System and check the checkbox auto login as current user.
  2. Same panel, switch to Interfaces tab and switch on VNC. May as well switch on SSH too while there.

Or if SSH is active already, login with SSH then:

sudo raspi-config Choose option 3: Boot Options Choose option B1: Desktop / CLI Choose option B2: Console Autologin Select Finish, and reboot the pi.

Set Up File Sharing

run:

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

After installation configure the software by opening the file /etc/samba/smb.conf using the command:

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Make sure you have the following parameters set:

workgroup = WORKGROUP
wins support = yes

You can use anything as your workgroup name as long as it is alphanumerical and matches the workgroup you would like to join.

Setup folder to share

Next create the folder you would like to share. To create a folder called “share” in your home directory do the following:

mkdir ~/share

With the folder created we can now tell the Samba software to share it on the network. Open the file /etc/samba/smb.conf using the command:

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Scroll to the bottom and add the following:

[PiShare] comment=Raspberry Pi Share path=/home/pi/share browseable=Yes writeable=Yes only guest=no create mask=0777 directory mask=0777 public=no

public access is not allowed via “public=no” – this means that anyone wanting to access the shared folder must login with a valid user.

In this case the valid user is the user called “pi”. To let Samba know that “pi” is a network user run the command:

sudo smbpasswd -a pi

And enter pi’s password twice (default: raspberry).

Cooling usb firmware update

$ unzip vl805_update_0137a8.zip $ chmod a+x vl805 $ sudo ./vl805 -w vl805_fw_0137a8.bin $ sudo reboot

The zip file includes the current shipping firmware (013701) in case you want to revert:

$ sudo ./vl805 -w vl805_fw_013701.bin $ sudo reboot

sudo ./vl805 with no parameters displays the version of the currently running firmware. Note that this may differ from what's in the EEPROM if you've just reprogrammed it but not rebooted.