r2cloud converts Raspberry PI into the base station which supports various radio signals, such as:
- APT (weather satellite)
- LRPT (weather satellite)
- Cubesats
Screenshots (r2cloud-ui)
There are 2 ways to install r2cloud:
- From the image. This is simpliest way and require brand new SD card
- Download the latest official image
- Insert SD card into the card reader and flash it. You could use Etcher to do this
- From repository binaries. Use this way if you have something already installed on SD card.
- Login via SSH and execute the following commands:
sudo apt-get install dirmngr
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A5A70917
sudo bash -c "echo 'deb [arch=armhf] http://s3.amazonaws.com/r2cloud r2cloud main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/r2cloud.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r2cloud
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Insert SD card into the card reader and create file
r2cloud.txtin the root directory. This file should contain any random string. This string is a login token. This token will be used during initial setup. -
Insert SD card into the RPi and open https://raspberrypi.local address.
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Accept self-signed certificate. This is unique certificate that was generated during installation. Once setup is complete, you could enable proper SSL using Letsencrypt.
- Autonomous:
- Ability to operate without internet connection
- synchronize state once connection restored
- automatically calibrate average absolute error
- configure base station location based on coordinates from GPS receiver
- new decoders could be added after auto-update
- Integration with external systems:
- share as much as possible data with external systems
- re-use libraries
- Single stack
- focus on single hardware and software stack
- optimize it
- Stability
- housekeeping logs and data based on available hard disk
- auto-update
- backward compatibility
- Security
- safe to expose administration UI to the internet
Details could be found in official documentation.
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