rasoberry-noaa/INSTALL.md

# Raspberry PI operating system
I'm using [Raspbian](https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/) as it have full support for Raspberry PI, simple package manager and it's pretty stable

# Automatic install
1. Clone this repository on your home directory
2. Run `./install.sh`. You will be asked for your ground station lat/lon position.

The install setup is described down here:


# Manual install

## Required packages and software

```
sudo apt update -yq
sudo apt install -yq predict \
                     python-setuptools \
                     ntp \
                     cmake \
                     libusb-1.0 \
                     sox \
                     at \
                     bc \
                     nginx \
                     libncurses5-dev \
                     libncursesw5-dev \
                     libatlas-base-dev \
                     python3-pip \
                     imagemagick \
                     libxft-dev \
                     libxft2
``` 

```
sudo pip3 install numpy ephem tweepy Pillow
```

### Install rtl_sdr
```
sudo cp modprobe.d/rtlsdr.conf /etc/modprobe.d/rtlsdr.conf
```

- clone rlt-sdr git repo and install rtl-sdr:
```
cd /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/osmocom/rtl-sdr.git
cd rtl-sdr/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON -DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd /tmp/
sudo cp ./rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
```

### Install WXToIMG
There's a deb package for it
```
sudo dpkg -i wxtoimg-armhf-2.11.2-beta.deb
```

## Raspberry-noaa configuration
### Clone this repo
```
cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/reynico/raspberry-noaa.git
cd raspberry-noaa
```

### Install the default configuration files
- noaa.conf: paths, satellite elevation and loggin 
```
cp "noaa.conf" "$HOME/.noaa.conf"
```

- predict.qth: Predict's ground station settings
```
cp "predict.qth" "$HOME/.predict/predict.qth"
```

- wxtoimgrc: WxToIMG ground station settings and license
```
cp "wxtoimgrc" "$HOME/.wxtoimgrc"
```

Don't forget to adjust your settings in those files

### Install Meteor software
- meteor_demod
```
git clone https://github.com/dbdexter-dev/meteor_demod.git
cd meteor_demod
make
sudo make install
cd ..
```

- medet_arm
```
sudo cp medet_arm /usr/bin/medet_arm
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/medet_arm
```

### Setup Nginx
```
sudo cp nginx.cfg /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/wx
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wx
sudo usermod -a -G www-data pi
sudo chmod 775 /var/www/wx
cp index.html /var/www/wx/index.html
sudo systemctl restart nginx
```

### Setup RamFS
```
sudo mkdir -p /var/ramfs
cat fstab | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab > /dev/null
sudo mount -a
sudo chmod 777 /var/ramfs
```

### Cron the scheduling job
```
cat <(crontab -l) <(echo "1 0 * * * /home/pi/raspberry-noaa/schedule.sh") | crontab -
```

### Set your Twitter credentials
- Go to [Twitter Developer site](http://developer.twitter.com/) and apply for a developer account.
- Set your credentials on `post.py`
```
CONSUMER_KEY = ''
CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = ''
```