Raspbian installation instructions

[petediscrete]

According to Gene he has taken a break to work on the documentation. Maybe I misread his previous post.

[petediscrete]

Link to a previous post from Gene

www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=1721.15

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Ahh.. that's ok then as its not leaving the project

[bkenobi]

There aren't too many more features Gene probably sees as necessary at the moment and with the majority of the code functioning correctly (not very many current issues on github) he probably figured now is a great time to document things.  I'd rather documentation get accomplished than add new features when users don't know how to use the current ones!

[petediscrete]

Absolutely agree Bkenobi. The only problem that may arise is for the people who insist on having the latest version of any software. If an application doesn't develop in line with an OS or it's other dependencies it tends to break at some stage. This is quite common in the Linux world. Of course for those who do not tinker all should be fine for the moment.

[bkenobi]

Right.  And that's why I'm currently several versions back.  I have a couple backup SD images, so I am planning on taking one up to the current version to see what I'm missing.  But, I have a stable setup that doesn't upset my wife, so I keep it there unless I need to fix something.  I've learned!

[petediscrete]

The only change on the current version that's benefited me is the camera screens. Much slicker than previous versions. Again that's just my opinion using mainly x10 and cameras.

[kevinvinv]

Do you guys do anything on your Pi to keep the clock sync'd up?

I hate it when my current HG computer gets out of sync...   Is there a network time sync or something you do ?

Thanks!

[bkenobi]

I don't remember doing anything about it.  But, it looks like it's already set up as is.  If you have /etc/ntp.conf set up correctly, I believe it will keep your time synced correctly automatically.

[kevinvinv]

Thanks,  And BTW- your instructions worked very well!  Thanks!!

[bkenobi]

I just looked a bit further and realized that there is a service running for ntp on my RPi.

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo service ntp status
[ ok ] NTP server is running.

I haven't looked at the program to determine the settings, but assuming it's using the /etc/ntp.conf file, it looks correct to me (but what do I know  ).

[kevinvinv]

I am new to the pi still... are you ssh'ing into it to get a terminal from remote or are there other new fangled ways to get to a pi terminal?

[petediscrete]

Putty on Linux for remote access in my case.

[bkenobi]

Putty on Windows here.  I suppose you could plug a monitor and keyboard in, but ssh is way easier.

[kevinvinv]

Hey Bkenobi,

Your instructions state this with regards to cloning the SD Card:

11) backup utility (RPI-CLONE)
    git clone https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone.git
    sudo cp rpi-clone/rpi-clone /usr/local/sbin

    Backup to usb flash drive:
    sudo rpi-clone sda
   
    Restore everything: (untested!)
    sudo rpi-clone sda sdb



Is this still the method you use and if so, have you determined if the restore command works?

Thanks!!!