Raspbian Quick Start Guide

Follow these steps to get up and running with a fresh install of Raspbian Lite, all ready for the temperature-machine.

Download the image of Raspbian Stretch Lite
On Mac, use Etcher to flash a new SD card with the image. Refer to raspberrypi.org for other platforms.
Setup your wifi by inserting your new SD card to your machine and creating a file wpa_supplicant.conf under /boot. Mine looks like this (the scan_ssid=1 is only needed if you’re using a hidden network). On Mac, it’s under /Volumes/boot.
```
 ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
 update_config=1
    
 network={
   ssid="ssid"
   scan_ssid=1
   psk="plain text password"
 }
```
Whilst you’re there, add dtoverlay=w1-gpio to the /boot/config.txt file.
Also run the following touch ssh against the boot folder (e.g. touch /Volume/boot/ssh on Mac)
Unmount and stick the card in the Pi. Power up.
On the Pi (ssh pi@raspberrypi.local), run raspi-config to:
1. Set the hostname to the room name (garage, study etc)
2. Expand the file system
Reboot. Follow the install steps.

Extras

You may want some optional extras:

To disable the activity light, add the following to /boot/config.txt (tested on the Pi Zero only).

  # disable the activity LED (intended for the Pi Zero)
  dtparam=act_led_trigger=none
  dtparam=act_led_activelow=on 

Set the timezone (for UK)

  sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime