Raspberry PI Notes

AdaFruit

• Raspberry Pi Model B Starter Pack - Includes a Raspberry Pi
• https://www.adafruit.com/products/1014
• Connect via the USB Cable:
• https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-4-gpio-setup/the-gpio-connector
• Connect via SSH
• https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-e-mail-notifier-using-leds/remote-ssh
• AdaFruit Python sample:
• https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code

Bash Commands

• Get IP
• hostname -I
• Username/password: pi/raspberry
• Access device configuration
• sudo rasp-config
• Get disk usage
• df -H
• du -H\
• How to reboot
• sudo reboot
• sudo shutdown -h now
• Edit Mouse Acceleration (LXTerminal
• lxinput
• Change Desktop color and image
• pcmanfm --desktop-pref
• Control Panel
• pcmanfm
• Extract current ip
• ifconfig | grep inet.*Bcast

Keyboard

• Setup US keyboard
• sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard
• XKBLAYOUT="us"

Display

• My hdmi to vga adapter stop working one day. Not sure why. I add to drop to a safer mode. With a real hdmi tv I did not have any problem
• nano boot/config.txt
• un comment hdmi_safe=1

Wifi

• How to setup the wifi
• https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-3-network-setup/setting-up-wifi-with-occidentalis

File Transfert

• File transfer from and to a Windows machine
• FileZilla
• http://trevorappleton.blogspot.com/2014/03/remotely-copy-files-to-and-from-your.html

GPIO Mapping

• Raspberry pi b+ pin maps

Python

• Library 
• Tutorial https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-4-gpio-setup/adafruit-pi-code
• GPIO
• sudo pip install RPi.GPIO
• EMail
• sudo pip install feedparser