Raspberry Pi Recipes

What's this repo all about?

This project contains Overcast scripts to automatically configure your Raspberry Pis remotely, including:

• Add your public key to authorized_keys
• Update installed packages to the latest and greatest
• Add the GoDaddy Class 2 Certification Authority Root Certificate - G2 to your Java CA Certificates Store
• Install Collectd
• Configure Collectd metrics to forward to Librato
• Install the No-IP Dynamic Update Client
• Configure WPA Supplicant to connect to your WiFi SSID (requires USB WiFi adapter)
• Install BlueZ 5 (requires USB Bluetooth adapter)
• Install Bluepy (requires USB Bluetooth adapter)
• Install Node.js
• Install Node-RED with basic nodes
• Install Mosquitto
• Disable password-based authentication for the pi user account

Note that each of these tools is optional and controlled by a flag (see config/pi.template).

Also note that 99.999% of the recipe is not Pi-specific, and as such it can be used to configure any Debian GNU/Linux-based distribution. We've used it to configure a Debian guest running under VirtualBox on OSX.

Using

Install Overcast on your local machine

$ npm install --global overcast

Import your Pi into Overcast

$ overcast instance import my-pi 1.2.3.4 --user pi

Customize the configuration

$ cp config/pi.template config/my-pi
$ vi config/my-pi

Make Pi

$ ./recipes/mkpi my-pi config/my-pi --password raspberry