Calaos quick start guide

Raspberry pi quick start guide

What you will need

A computer with Linux, MacosX or Windows

A Raspberry pi, Model B

An SD Card, We recommend an 2GB class 4 SD card

Download the latest official calaos image for raspberrypi :http://calaos.fr/download/experimental/calaos-image-raspberrypi-2014-04-28.tar.xz

Creating the SD card with calaos os

Linux

Launch a terminal and go in the directory where you download the calaos os image.

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ tar xvf calaos-image-raspberrypi-2014-04-28.tar.xz

Insert the sdcard into the sdcard reader of your PC. You need to know what's the device created by linux when the card is inserted. The device name is something like /dev/sdX or /dev/mmcblkX. To know the exact name use the following command :

$ dmesg | tail

You should get something like that :

[191385.790344] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234
[191385.790574] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SA04G 3.67 GiB
[191385.791564] mmcblk0: p1 p2

In that case the device is /dev/mmvblk0

We need to ensure that this device is not mounted on your system

$ sudo unmount /dev/mmvblk0p1
$ sudo unmount /dev/mmvblk0p2
...

or in case your device is detected as /dev/sdX

$ sudo unmount /dev/sdd1
$ sudo unmount /dev/sdd2
...

You can verify that the devices are not mounted by using the mount command

$ mount

No sdcard must appears in the resulting list.

Let's now copy the calaos os on the sdcard

sudo dd if=calaos-image-raspberrypi-2014-04-28.sdimg of=/dev/mmcblk0

Once the operation is terminated, you can remove the sdcard, and insert it in the Raspberry pi.

Macos

You can use ApplePi-Baker. It's a free utility tha allows you to write an image to the sdcard. It can be download here : http://www.tweaking4all.com/downloads/raspberrypi/ApplePi-Baker.zip

Windows

You can use Win32DiskImager. You can download it here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Connecting to the Rpi

When you boot the raspberrypi, the network is configure to use dhcp, so you need to know what's the address the dhcp server give you. Or if you are using MacOS or Linux, you may try to connect to it with :

ssh root@rasberrypi

If you already know the IP address, just connect directly :

ssh root@ip_address

The default password is empty. If you have trouble to find the ip adress, look here : http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/troubleshooting/hardware/networking/ip-address.md it may give you some hints.

NOTE : on Linux and MacosX you can use the Terminal to use ssh. On windows you need a program like putty to connect to the raspberrypi : http://www.putty.org/

Calaos Server configuration

The first thing you have to do is to set the basics paramterers of your calaos installation : username and password.

$ calaos_config set cn_user nico
$ calaos_config set cn_pass calaos_rox

These user and password it those that you wille to use to connect with Calaos Web, Calaos Home or Calaos Installer. By default when you boot the raspberrypi with a Calaos OS image, calaos-server is not launched. You can launch it with command :

systemctl start calaos-server

If you want it activated each time you start the card, enable the launch at startup with the following command :

systemctl enable calaos-server

To see if everything is fine with calaos server, you can try to connect to the server vie Calaos Web. Launch your favorite web browser and connect to http://raspberrypi or http://ip_address You should be able to login, but nothing is displayed in the interface. It's totally normal as we actually not configure the whole installation yet. What we need know is create the configuration of our house, and we will use Calaos Installer for that.

House configuration with Calaos Installer