pilanprobe

RaspberryPI 4 LAN probe

Hardware

Connect the microSD to a PC
Install Raspberry PI Imager and write the standard Raspberry OS image (with desktop) to the SD
Extract the microSD card and insert again in the PC
In the boot partition (mounted as root by Windows, is the partition with start.elf file) create an empty file named ssh
Eject the microSD, put it on Raspberry and boot the device connected to the network, get the IP address from DHCP server
Open a ssh session with the Raspberry, username pi, pass raspberry
Update the OS with sudo apt update and then sudo apt full-upgrade and reboot the device
Install the touch screen driver for MHS-3.5” RPi Display(MHS3528) Documentation
Set up the display in portrait orientation (see the instruction on how to rotate the screen)
sudo raspi-config
- 8->Update
- 1->S7 enable spalsh screen
- 5->L2->None of the above->UTC
Edit /home/pi/.config/libfm/libfm.conf and set quick_exec=1 under config section
Install some additional packages: sudo apt-get install mc tshark gawk
Put LLDPi.desktop file in ~/Desktop
Create directory ~/.config/autostart and ln -s /home/pi/Desktop/LLDPi.desktop /home/pi/.config/autostart/LLDPi.desktop
Put the LLDPi folder in pi home directory