Banana Pi Cookbook

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Banana Pi Cookbook

By : Ryad El-Dajani

Book Image

Banana Pi Cookbook

By: Ryad El-Dajani

Overview of this book

Banana Pi Cookbook

Banana Pi Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Installation and Setup

Installation and Setup

Downloading an operating system for the Banana Pi

Setting up the SD card on Windows

Setting up the SD card on Linux

Booting up and shutting down the Banana Pi

Administration

Determining the IP address and hostname

Connecting via SSH on Windows using PuTTY

Connecting via SSH on Unix-like systems

User maintenance

Searching, installing, and removing the software

Updating the operating system

Wireless network on the Banana Pro

External Disks

Mounting a USB drive

Mounting an SSD or HDD via SATA

Mounting via fstab

Booting from an external disk

Networking

Sharing files over the network via Samba

Setting up a web application

Securing the Nginx web server using SSL

Synchronizing files over the Internet

Controlling the desktop remotely using VNC

Securing SSH using SSH keys

Setting up a UPnP media server

Using the GPIO Pins

Using the GPIO Pins

Lighting up an LED using the gpio command

Programming the LED

Using the GPIO input with a pushbutton

Multimedia

Configuring the audio device

Getting accelerated video playback

Setting up Kodi

Setting up an infrared remote control using LIRC

Index

Customer Reviews

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Chapter 1. Installation and Setup

This chapter will cover the following recipes:

Downloading an operating system for the Banana Pi
Setting up the SD card on Windows
Setting up the SD card on Linux
Booting up and shutting down the Banana Pi