ansible-raspbian

Install and configuration for a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian using Ansible

Setup

Fresh install of lastest Raspbian on SSD
Fire up Raspberry Pi and enable SSH
```
sudo raspi-config
```
Change the Raspberry Pi SSH password to something other than the default raspberry
```
passwd
```
Grab the IP address of your Pi on the network
```
hostname -I
```

Install Ansible and Git on control machine

brew install ansible git
brew install http://git.io/sshpass.rb

Clone this repo to your control machine

git clone git@github.com:devert/ansible-raspbian.git
cd ansible-raspbian

Copy the hosts file and replace <IP_ADDRESS> with the IP of your Pi and <SSH_PASSWORD> to what you changed it to earlier
```
cp templates/hosts.example hosts
```
Install project dependent roles with Ansible Galaxy
```
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
```
Run the playbook
```
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts
```

VNC Setup

sudo raspi-config > Interface Options > VNC > Enable. Reboot.

Generate the password you wish to use for VNC sessions with vncpasswd -print

vncpasswd -print

Password:
Verify:
Password=40cca9718ffb8e91d55cf290c3db86d5

Copy the output of that command (eg. Password=40cca9718ffb8e91d55cf290c3db86d5) for the config file.
Create and edit the following file here: /etc/vnc/config.d/common.custom. Enter the following config:
```
Encryption=PreferOn
Authentication=VncAuth
Password=40cca9718ffb8e91d55cf290c3db86d5
```

Restart the vnc service:

sudo systemctl restart vncserver-x11-serviced

In OSX Finder Go > Connect to Server and enter address vnc://pi@<IP_ADDRESS>:5900. Use the password you provided to vncpasswd to login.

Plex Setup

Update and upgrade everything

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Ensure you have the HTTPs transport package
```
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
```

Add the dev2day repository to your package source list.

wget -O - https://dev2day.de/pms/dev2day-pms.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dev2day.de/pms/ stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list

Update the package list again.
```
sudo apt-get update
```

Install Plex Service Installer

sudo apt-get install -t stretch plexmediaserver-installer

Change some permissions

# Change to PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=pi
sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver.prev

# Change ownership of /var/lib/plexmediaserver if necessary
chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver

# Restart plexmediaserver
sudo service plexmediaserver restart
sudo service plexmediaserver status

Ensure Pi has a static IP

hostname -I
# Add ip=<IP_ADDRESS> to the bottom of this file
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

Reboot with sudo reboot
Go to localhost:32400/web or <IP_ADDRESS>:32400/web to setup Plex Media Server