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.

• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Basic Configuration 1
• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Basic Configuration 2

Timezone change

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

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ date Tue Oct  6 13:48:38 UTC 2015 pi@raspberrypi ~ $ 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 pi@raspberrypi ~ $ tzconfig WARNING: the tzconfig command is deprecated, please use:  dpkg-reconfigure tzdata pi@raspberrypi ~ $ dpkg-reconfigure tzdata /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure must be run as root pi@raspberrypi ~ $ 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. pi@raspberrypi ~ $ 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.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ 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. pi@raspberrypi ~ $

List System Information

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

HypriotOS/armv7: pirate@black-pearl in ~
$ ls /etc/*release
/etc/os-release
HypriotOS/armv7: pirate@black-pearl 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: pirate@black-pearl in ~
$

Add Cron Job

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

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ 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                                    [ Wrote 24 lines ] 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: root@black-pearl 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: root@black-pearl 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: root@black-pearl in ~
#

Installing Portainer

HypriotOS/armv7: root@black-pearl in ~
# docker volume create portainer_data
portainer_data
HypriotOS/armv7: root@black-pearl 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: root@black-pearl 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/

1. 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

2. Run docker-compose up --detach to build and start pi-hole

References

• Getting started with Docker on your Raspberry Pi - Docker Pirates ARMed with explosive stuff