Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Basic Configuration Part 2 - Install Hypriot OS, Pi-hole etc

This is the second post regarding basic configuration of Raspberry Pi 2.

Timezone change

By default, Raspberry Pi 2 will use UTC time. Command tzselect will give you continent and country selection to pick.

[email protected] ~ $ date
Tue Oct 6 13:48:38 UTC 2015
[email protected] ~ $ tzselect
Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
Please select a continent or ocean.
1) Africa
2) Americas
3) Antarctica
4) Arctic Ocean
5) Asia
6) Atlantic Ocean
7) Australia
8) Europe
9) Indian Ocean
10) Pacific Ocean
11) none - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format

[email protected] ~ $ tzconfig
WARNING: the tzconfig command is deprecated, please use:
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
[email protected] ~ $ dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure must be run as root
[email protected] ~ $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'America/Toronto'
Local time is now: Tue Oct 6 10:55:18 EDT 2015.
Universal Time is now: Tue Oct 6 14:55:18 UTC 2015.

[email protected] ~ $ date
Tue Oct 6 10:55:28 EDT 2015

Access the Raspberry Pi Desktop

XRDP service will allow you to use remote desktop to access Raspberry Pi GUI through VNC service.

[email protected] ~ $ sudo apt-get install xrdp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
tightvncserver xfonts-base
Suggested packages:
tightvnc-java
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tightvncserver xfonts-base xrdp
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,219 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main tightvncserver armhf 1.3.9-6.4 [786 kB]
Get:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main xfonts-base all 1:1.0.3 [6,181 kB]
Get:3 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main xrdp armhf 0.5.0-2 [252 kB]
Fetched 7,219 kB in 14s (493 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package tightvncserver.
(Reading database ... 76938 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tightvncserver (from .../tightvncserver_1.3.9-6.4_armhf.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package xfonts-base.
Unpacking xfonts-base (from .../xfonts-base_1%3a1.0.3_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package xrdp.
Unpacking xrdp (from .../xrdp_0.5.0-2_armhf.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig ...
Setting up tightvncserver (1.3.9-6.4) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/tightvncserver to provide /usr/bin/vncserver (vncserver) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/Xtightvnc to provide /usr/bin/Xvnc (Xvnc) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/tightvncpasswd to provide /usr/bin/vncpasswd (vncpasswd) in auto mode
Setting up xfonts-base (1:1.0.3) ...
Setting up xrdp (0.5.0-2) ...
[....] Generating xrdp RSA keys......
Generating 512 bit rsa key...

ssl_gen_key_xrdp1 ok

saving to /etc/xrdp/rsakeys.ini

done (done).
[....] Starting Remote Desktop Protocol server : xrdp sesman.
[email protected] ~ $

List System Information

[email protected] ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.18.7-v7+ #755 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 12 17:20:48 GMT 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
$ ls /etc/*release
/etc/os-release
HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
$

Add Cron Job

Add a cron job to halt Raspberry Pi at 23:00 everyday.

[email protected] ~ $ crontab -e

GNU nano 2.2.6 File: /tmp/crontab.obWc51/crontab

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h dom mon dow command
0 23 * * * sudo halt

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crontab: installing new crontab

Install Portainer

Assume you have installed HypriotOS from https://blog.hypriot.com/downloads/
Docker and Docker-Compose has been installed. The default credentials for the image are user pirate with password hypriot.

You always can change it from raspi-config menu.

Check docker version and docker-compose version.


HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
# docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           19.03.12
 API version:       1.40
 Go version:        go1.13.10
 Git commit:        48a6621
 Built:             Mon Jun 22 15:53:41 2020
 OS/Arch:           linux/arm
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          19.03.12
  API version:      1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.13.10
  Git commit:       48a6621
  Built:            Mon Jun 22 15:47:34 2020
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.2.13
  GitCommit:        7ad184331fa3e55e52b890ea95e65ba581ae3429
 runc:
  Version:          1.0.0-rc10
  GitCommit:        dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.18.0
  GitCommit:        fec3683
HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
# docker-compose version
docker-compose version 1.26.1, build 634eb50
docker-py version: 4.2.2
CPython version: 3.7.3
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1d  10 Sep 2019
HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
#

Installing Portainer

HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
# docker volume create portainer_data
portainer_data
HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
# docker run -d -p 9000:9000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest
Unable to find image 'portainer/portainer-ce:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from portainer/portainer-ce
651a8e6e1630: Pull complete
56e38df73332: Pull complete
c559aeebeb38: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:79edf1302c9b4fdb06bc23321cc551e9118c29e6d668e12e23d4e58d993ab830
Status: Downloaded newer image for portainer/portainer-ce:latest
7434238c52b5c1a94d3cce7903c005ac7efe07ff3c250201ae7ccb683be4ee37
HypriotOS/armv7: [email protected] in ~
#

Install Hypriot OS on Raspberry Pi

An OS with build-In Docker support in Raspbian release

Blog: https://blog.hypriot.com/

Github: https://github.com/hypriot/image-builder-rpi

Download: https://blog.hypriot.com/downloads/

Default Credentials: user pirate with password hypriot.

Flashing tool: Etcher for Windows (x86|x64) (Portable) (https://www.balena.io/etcher/)

Install Pi-hole

note: https://burakkarakan.com/blog/pihole-on-raspberry-using-pi-docker-and-docker-compose/

Copy docker-compose.yml.example to docker-compose.yml and update as needed. See example below: Docker-compose example:

nano docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

# More info at https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/ and https://docs.pi-hole.net/
services:
  pihole:
    container_name: pihole
    image: pihole/pihole:latest
    ports:
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      - "67:67/udp"
      - "80:80/tcp"
    environment:
      TZ: 'America/Toronto'
      WEBPASSWORD: 'Change-it-to-your-own'

    # We'll use host networking simply because it is way easier to setup.
    network_mode: host

    # Volumes store your data between container upgrades
    volumes:
      - './etc-pihole/:/etc/pihole/'
      - './etc-dnsmasq.d/:/etc/dnsmasq.d/'
    # Recommended but not required (DHCP needs NET_ADMIN)
    #   https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    restart: unless-stopped