software

Software Installation Guide

• Download the official Debian 7.11 (Wheezy) system image for the Beaglebone from the BeagleBone firmware website (scroll down to Older Debian images) and flash it onto an empty SD card.
• Boot your system and login via ssh as root: ssh root@<device-address> (NOTE: for security reasons, this will login will be deactivated by the setup script)
• Clone this repository on the RocketLogger or copy the 'software' folder to it
• Change to the subfolder software/debian/
• Run the setup script ./setup_beaglebone.sh
• Confirm to reboot at the end of the installation script or reboot the system manually with reboot

After this initial system setup you will only be able to login as rocketlogger user using the default ssh key. The required settings are

• SSH port: 2322
• SSH private key: can be downloaded here, the passphrase to unlock it is available here.
• The user's password is "beaglebone". However, this is only useful for gaining root permission once logged in (using sudo), as password only and root logins are blocked.

We highly recommend that you replace the standard key with an ssh key generated yourself (replace both files in the /home/rocketlogger/.ssh/ folder)!

How to generate your of key is explained in the SSH Help at Gitlab.

Device Tree Overlay

• Change to the subfolder software/device_tree_overlay
• Compile and install device tree overlay: make and sudo make install

RocketLogger Binary

• Change to the subfolder software/rocketlogger
• Build and install software: make and sudo make install
• Reboot to apply all changes
• Do a calibration run (see Calibration Guide).

Webserver/Control Interface

This component is optional, but highly recommended for convenient device control.

• Change to the subfolder software/webserver
• Run ./setup_web.sh
• Create password file using the command htpasswd -c /home/rocketlogger/.htpasswd "username". Remember the set password, you will use it later to login to the web interface.