Saturday, March 7, 2020

Raspberry Pi 2b Recipe


Raspberian crashed again and would not reboot.  Follow these steps to recover:

  1. Used MacOS BalenaEtcher to flash SDCard; OSMC not working latest Raspberian works
  2. Add ssh file to boot root directory; touch ssh
  3. Success ssh via wired connection; user pi - password raspberry
  4. Sudo raspi-config to configure wifi; enable vnc; enable GUI desktop
  5. Edit /etc/dhcpcd.conf with static IP for wlan0
  6. Add user to sudoer file - sudo usermod -aG sudo username
  7. Use Music on commandline (moc/mocp) as command line music player
  8. Need to install desktop - sudo apt-get install lightdm
  9. Need a desktop too  apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-settings-daemon metacity nautilus gnome-terminal (probably better off flashing desktop version of raspberian)
  10. Download vnc server or xrdp (not both) - we need a browser or VLC to play online radio
  11. To fix default display resolution: /etc/vnc/config.d/vncserver-x11-virtual:xrandr -s 1024x768
  12. Remove pulseaudio to get stereo vs mono
  13. sudo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen 'true'