My Raspberry Pi Setup

Refreshing  pi and ECDSA key changed

This is a very common scenario, and simple to fix just enter the command e.g. 

# ssh-keygen -R <host>

ssh-keygen -R 192.168.1.8

Enable VNC

Display Options for VNC

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NB for Bookworm on PiZero

The Pi Zero 2W has 512M of memory and the default swap space to do a memory update may be insufficient.
From a Terminal window, enter the command swapon. The answer gives the file name, size, and usage of the swap file. The default swap file size is 100M and that probably is not sufficient with 512M memory. 


Enter sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile and change CONF_SWAPSIZE=100 to 1024. Reboot and then before doing anything enter the command "swapon" in a terminal window to see the swap space usage. 

Using MQTT

The Eclipse Paho MQTT Python library provides a  client client class to enable applications to connect to the MQTT Eclipse Mosquitto broker to publish messages and to subscribe to topics and receive published messages. 

Add/Remove search for mosquitto and install MQTT compatible message broker for Mosquitto. The client library will be added automatically.

Unless the configuration File is modified MQTT only runs on same computer as localhost.

Starting with the release of Mosquitto version 2.0.0, the default configuration will only bind to localhost. To enable remote access so that we can communicate with other IoT devices, we need to edit/create a configuration file.

Mosquitto Broker Enable Remote Access (No Authentication)

1) Run the following command to open the mosquitto.conf file.

sudo nano /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf

2) Move to the end of the file using the arrow keys and paste the following two lines:

listener 1883

allow_anonymous true

Mosquitto configuration file to allow remote connections and anonymous users

 3) Then, press CTRL-X to exit and save the file. Press Y and Enter.

 4) Restart Mosquitto for the changes to take effect.

sudo systemctl restart mosquitto


Mosquitto Broker Enable Remote Access (Authentication: user and password) see link

Node Red configuration 

When configuring MQTT server in Node Red, in the MQTT broker node set the Protocol to MQTT V5.

Node-RED Installation 

(v3.x no longer supports Nodejs 12 )

then add --node18 to bash script

bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered) --node18


For a specific version of Node Red add for eg  --nodered-version="3.0.1"

Bluepy

Assumes standard raspberry pi installation with headless setup.

Install Bluepy from https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy .

To install the current released version, on most Debian-based systems:

$ sudo pip3 install bluepy

To enable Bluepy without sudo

$ sudo setcap cap_net_raw+e  <PATH>/bluepy-helper

$ sudo setcap cap_net_admin+eip  <PATH>/bluepy-helper 

Where <PATH> is the place where bluepy-helper is installed; it's easiest to just search for this, 

e.g.

  $ find /usr/local/lib -name bluepy-helper

Using 433 Utils

Raspian may already have WiringPi installed. Check by entering 

gpio -v if bash: gpio: command not found then need to  install WiringPi.

then install WiringPi. Unfortunately it has been deprecated and sudo apt-get install wiringpi no longer works. The GPIO Zero library is now the default installed on Debian!

Follow setup instructions in link below.

C (WiringPi) Setup


433Utils is made by GitHub user wolfeidau code allows reading and sending commands over 433MHz. The fork by jstevenperry works whereas the original didn’t!

The following instructions are based on Steven Perry’s Home Automation Series (video) (wordpress) 

Installation: 

To install run following commands

            $ mkdir HA

$ cd ~/HA

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/jstevenperry/433Utils   no longer available but could copy from PC backup seems to have a few differences from the original then follow instructions below

$ cd 433Utils/RPi_utils

$ make

**Moved 433Utils folder to HA folder (my folder for Home Automation projects)

**If recovering 433Utils in HA folder from a backup held on PC, need to 

$ cd HA/433Utils/RPi_utils

$ make