Kotori Box DIY#

Main unit#

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B#

Power Supply#

Power is important.

Grid#

Mobile#

Micro UPS#

DAQ adapters#

Wired#

Wireless#

RF69#

IEEE 802.15.4#

Access 6LoWPAN and ZigBee

ZWave#

LoRa#

Connectivity#

WiFi#

A second WiFi might be handy: The onboard WiFi provides an access point for receiving ingress telemetry data, while the other one might optionally connect to an upstream internet gateway.

3G/4G#

Connect to the internet using a GPRS/UMTS/LTE uplink.

Housing#

Software#

Raspbian#

Command line installer#

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest
unzip 2016-05-10-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#installing-the-operating-system

  • Identify the SD card disk:

    diskutil list
    
  • Unmount your SD card by using the disk identifier, to prepare for copying data to it:

    diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
    
  • Copy the data to your SD card:

    sudo dd bs=1M if=~/Downloads/2016-05-10-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/rdisk1
    
  • Eject the card:

    sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
    sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdisk1
    

User interface installers#

See also https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianInstaller

Boot RaspberryPi#

  • Insert SD Card into slot, connect with Ethernet and power up the system

  • Login:

    # The default password for user "pi" is "raspberry"
    ssh pi@raspberrypi
    
    sudo su -
    

Kotori#

See Setup on Debian and Ubuntu.