Pi4 with Raspbian Bookworm

Placeholder for Bookworm instructions. More to follow but as a start:

Burn an SD Card

• Download the Raspberry Pi Imager from https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
• Run the tool, select your model of Pi, then select Bookworm 64-bit.
• Select your SD card and click Next and then Edit Settings. Make the following changes:
  • If you know your station ID set the Hostname to match it but in lower case. For example if your station is UK1234 set the hostname to uk1234
  • otherwise set the hostname to be something you'll remember
  • Set the username to rms and enter a password of your choice. Remember this!
  • Add your Wifi network details
  • Set the locale to UTC and the keyboard layout to match your keyboard.
  • save settings, and on the next screen click Yes and then Yes again
• Once the image has been burned, insert the SD card into your Pi power it on. The Pi will reboot a few times as it sets things up.

Configure the Operating System

• Login as the rms user you created above and run the following commands to install the system libraries required by RMS.

sudo apt-get install -y cmake git mplayer python3 python3-dev python3-tk python3-pip libblas-dev libatlas-base-dev liblapack-dev at-spi2-core libopencv-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev socat ntp libxml2-dev libxslt-dev imagemagick ffmpeg qt5-qmake python3-pyqt5 libqt5gstreamer-1.0-0 python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia qtgstreamer-plugins-qt5 libqt5gstreamer-dev libqt5gstreamerui-1.0-0 libqt5gstreamerutils-1.0-0 python3-opencv libcairo2-dev

sudo apt-get install -y gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev
sudo apt-get install -y gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

• now create a python environment for RMS:

python -m venv ~/vRMS

Install RMS

• First download RMS:

mkdir ~/source
cd ~/source
git clone https://github.com/CroatianMeteorNetwork/RMS.git

• Now, set up python in the environment we just created:

cd ~/source/RMS
pip install -U pip setuptools
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Configure git so that the script can stash changes in the repo and update the code:

git config --global user.email "rms@gmn.uwo.ca"
git config --global user.name "RMS"

• Ready the RMS software:

cd ~/source/RMS
python setup.py install
./Scripts/GenerateDesktopLinks.sh

Configure RMS

• Fnd your coordinates on the globe. Your location needs to be known very accurately to 5 decimal places for Meteor Science. Use GPS for this or an accurate map. Put this information in the .config file in the RMS directory. If you already have a station ID you can add this to the config file too.

nano ~/source/RMS/.config

• Now run RMS for the first time. You will be asked to confirm a number of system settings. You don't need to expand the filesystem so you can skip over that step.

 ./Scripts/RMS_FirstRun.sh

NB: If you have no station-ID yet, request one with the instructions shown on screen and then abort the script by pressing the Ctrl-C key combination. Once you have your station ID, add it into the .config file and rerun ./Scripts/RMS_FirstRun.sh;;

• When RMS runs successfully, stop stop it by pressing Ctrl-C and letting the script complete.

(more to come)