Banana Pi Cookbook Over 25 recipes to build projects and applications for multiple platforms with Banana Pi Ryad El-Dajani BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Banana Pi Cookbook Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: June 2015 Production reference: 1240615 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-78355-244-3 www.packtpub.com Credits Author Copy Editor Ryad El-Dajani Laxmi Subramanian Reviewers Project Coordinator José Manuel Cerrejón González Shweta H. Birwatkar Kenny Hsu Proofreader Michał Piątkowski Safis Editing Commissioning Editor Indexer Priya Singh Rekha Nair Acquisition Editor Production Coordinator Sam Wood Manu Joseph Content Development Editor Cover Work Arwa Manasawala Manu Joseph Technical Editor Pankaj Kadam About the Author Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug. I would like to thank my family for their support during the authoring of this book. Special thanks go to my grandpa, Jürgen, and my uncle, Thomas, who introduced me into the world of computers against the wishes of my parents when I was a child. Furthermore, I would like to thank the Internet community for spreading their knowledge. Without amazing guys like you, I would have never been able to understand and, in the end, write about the complex technologies surrounding us today. I am particularly grateful to my beloved girlfriend, Marlene. Without her infinite support, patience, understanding, and cooking skills, I would not have been able to complete this project. About the Reviewers José Manuel Cerrejón González is a full-stack freelance software developer based in Huelva, Spain, and a Raspberry Pi, Odroid, and Banana Pi enthusiast. Nowadays, he blogs regularly on his own website at http://misapuntesde.com/ in both Spanish and English, and he has compiled a great Raspberry Pi resource on Google Docs at http://goo.gl/ Iwhbq. He has also contributed to the community with a project called PiKISS (Pi Keeping It Simple, Stupid!) that you can download from GitHub (https://github.com/jmcerrejon/PiKISS). Although this is the first book he has reviewed, he has written other articles for the press, such as ODROID Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ulysess10. To my daughter, Laura: I hope to see your smile every morning for a long time. Kenny Hsu is a Linux system administrator, database administrator, and web developer who has over 7 years of experience. He has executed projects in a broad range of technologies, including Java, Spring Framework, jQuery, MySQL, MariaDB, Ubuntu, Debian, and so on. He is also an open source contributor. This year, he has written some dev board-related tutorials for beginners (who are interested in Banana Pi, Cubieboard, and OpenWRT router), in Chinese. He is also a native Chinese speaker residing in Taiwan. Some of the tutorials he wrote earlier this year are as follows: f OpenWRT wr841n mod (https://github.com/annbigbig/wr841nd-memo) f Cubian memo (https://github.com/annbigbig/cubian_memo) If you can speak Chinese, you can interact with him directly in Chinese. He would be very glad to talk to you. You can follow him on Twitter at @annbigbig and you can also e-mail him at [email protected]. This is my first book with Packt Publishing, and I am very glad to meet you. My dear kitten called PaPa passed away in summer 2013. He was a 17-year-old white Persian kitten, and I will always miss him. Michał Piątkowski is a young freelancer, who always tries to develop his potential. Although he mainly programs in Java, he is also interested in C and C++, especially where microcontrollers are concerned. Moreover, he is fascinated by Banana Pi and Raspberry Pi projects. He devotes his spare time to robotics and electronics. 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Table of Contents Preface iii Chapter 1: Installation and Setup 1 Introduction 1 Downloading an operating system for the Banana Pi 5 Setting up the SD card on Windows 8 Setting up the SD card on Linux 12 Booting up and shutting down the Banana Pi 15 Chapter 2: Administration 19 Introduction 19 Determining the IP address and hostname 20 Connecting via SSH on Windows using PuTTY 22 Connecting via SSH on Unix-like systems 27 User maintenance 29 Searching, installing, and removing the software 33 Updating the operating system 37 Wireless network on the Banana Pro 41 Chapter 3: External Disks 49 Introduction 49 Mounting a USB drive 49 Mounting an SSD or HDD via SATA 54 Mounting via fstab 56 Booting from an external disk 59 Chapter 4: Networking 65 Introduction 65 Sharing files over the network via Samba 65 Setting up a web application 75 Securing the Nginx web server using SSL 87 i