matt-osborn / alarmpi_guide

Guide for RaspberryPi with ArchLinux

alarmpi

Arch Linux ARM (alarm) Installation and Configuration on RaspberryPi

• alarmpi
  • Setup
    • Network
      • WiFi
      • SSH
  • Install

Setup

• First Installation

Network

• Enable hostname alarmpi.local

  pacman --sync avahi
  systemctl enable avahi-daemon
  systemctl start avahi-daemon

  Blog about why to enable .local domain

WiFi

• Set up WiFi connection

  wifi-menu

• Connect to WiFi network, if not already connected

  # Placeholder wlan0-red needs to be replaced by your profile name, which is created after executing 'wifi-menu'
  netctl start wlan0-red

  Source

• Connect to WiFi network automatically on boot

  netctl enable wlan0-red

• (Optional) Manually assign IP address

  # Placeholder wlan0 is interface name. List interfaces using ifconfig
  ip address add 192.168.0.123/24 broadcast + dev wlan0

• Fix DNS problem

  DNSSEC validation failed: signature-expired

  systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service

  Source

SSH

Source

• Generate SSH keys on archlinux server

  # -C stands for comment
  ssh-keygen -C "$(whoami)@$(uname -n)-\$(date -I)"

• Add archlinux server to SSH config (~/.ssh/config) on another computer in the same network

  Host pi
    Hostname alarmpi.local
    User alarm

• Copy SSH public key to archlinux's authorized keys

  ssh-copy-id pi

Install

• Upgrade system packages

  pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade

• Install vim

  pacman --sync vim

• Airplay

• Pi-hole