Re: [orca-list] [off-topic] Advice on setting up Raspberry Pi



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Didier

Le 30/01/2021 à 21:29, Andrew Hart via orca-list a écrit :
Hi folks,

My question is a little off-topic, but I have some news related to Orca to report that perhaps folks won't have heard of which will hopefully make up for this.

Recently I purchased a Raspberry Pi 4b thinking that'd I'd fire it up and just ssh into. Ahha! The Raspberry Pi folks have turned off ssh access by default, so that kind of stonkers me. I had initially planned to play with it headlessly, my first project being to use it as a replacement for an old  Linksys NSLU2 (running OpenWRT) I've been using as a media streamer for a number of years now.

Hunting around, it seems that in order to get ssh access, I would need to build my own Raspberry OS image and given that I don't currently have a Linux system, that's going to be problematic. The Windows LInux subsystem won't help either because it's purely 64 bit and pi gen, the official image builder, contains some component that apparently fails in all 64-bit OS's at the moment.

So, I grabbed a USB keyboard for the Pi and assembled it. I purchased the Pi as part of a kit which came with everything needed to get started. Assembly was straight forward, involving sticking heat sinks on some chips, putting the board into the case  and hooking a fan up to the appropriate pins on the GPIO header. Cudos to the rather outdated raspberryvi.org Web site for publishing the GPIO pinouts in an accessible form. The hardest part was finding out if I had managed to correctly guess which IC's the heat sinks needed to be put on.

Now, here's the news about Orca that made me think I might be able to get it up and running without sighted assistance. In the latest release of Raspian Buster (which came out in November or December), the Pi folks have added a hotkey that can be pressed at any time, including during first boot, that installs Orca and all of its dependencies and starts it up. The hotkey is Alt+ctrl+Space.

I hooked the Pi up to my HT, since that has my only television, and fired it up. It looks like I put it all together properly as it starts up without any hassles. Pointing Seeing AI at the TV screen, I can see that Noobs has started and we get to the gotcha I hadn't thought about before. The first thing Noobs is asking is which of three or maybe four OS's I want to install. At this point, Raspberry OS is not yet running, so I can't start Orca. The hotkey for getting ORCA up and running is only available in Raspberry OS and I need to install the OS onto the SD card first. As Homer Simpson says, "Doh!" However, I don't know how to interact with the on-screen menu or if there is an item selected by default. Can anyone tell me how this screen works?

Or, am I making a meal out of this? Is there a simpler way to go about getting a Raspberry Pi up and running if you can't see the screen? Any advice would be gratefully received, though perhaps folks might write to me off-list since this is somewhat off-topic for this list.

Many thanks,
Andrew.
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