So I finally had the time to hobble together an open source version of the headless Raspberry Pi config interface I've been working on. It's used in applications where you want your Raspberry Pi to act as a "headless" server (i.e. - it doesn't have a video screen.) The configuration steps you would normally perform using the raspi-config utility are performed using a web page accessed over the network.
If you have a Raspi with a USB wireless adapter (like this one, sold by Adafruit) you'll be able to test it out. Note. This rev only works with the adapters that use the RTL 871X driver. The official version will support many more USB devices, and you can always access the interface over the wired network connection.
To try it out, download the image from http://sm5.us/2014-01-07-starless-raspbian.img.bz2, unzip the file, then write the image to a SD card. After that, you just boot your raspi and look for a wireless network whose name is something like starlessXXXXXX. Connect to the wireless network using the pass phrase starless, and then go to http://y.sm5.us/ to see the admin interface.
I haven't configured mDNS yet, so accessing the interface via the wired interface on a Model B is a little trickier. It's setup to do DHCP on eth0, so if you have your raspi working now with DHCP, it should still work. You'll have to figure out what the IP address is by yourself, but that's the hardest part. I've configured my DHCP server to always hand out the same IP address to my raspi, so i just added the line
192.168.1.3 y.sm5.us
to the /etc/hosts file. Your raspi probably has a different IP address, so... substitute 192.168.1.3 with whatever your IP address is.
The interesting bit I'm trying to test out right now is to make sure the interface works with popular mobile phones and tablets. Unlike previous web experiments, I'm not doing anything fancy, so as long as you have a reasonably modern browser that handles JavaScript and jQuery, you should be fine.
If you have questions, comments or just want to tell me you tried it and it worked, ping me at @OhMeadhbh on twitter or via email at OhMeadhbh [at] gmail [dot] com.
-Cheers!
p.s. - like most of the project names I use, the name "starless" comes from a King Crimson song; "Starless and Bible Black" in this instance.
If you have a Raspi with a USB wireless adapter (like this one, sold by Adafruit) you'll be able to test it out. Note. This rev only works with the adapters that use the RTL 871X driver. The official version will support many more USB devices, and you can always access the interface over the wired network connection.
To try it out, download the image from http://sm5.us/2014-01-07-starless-raspbian.img.bz2, unzip the file, then write the image to a SD card. After that, you just boot your raspi and look for a wireless network whose name is something like starlessXXXXXX. Connect to the wireless network using the pass phrase starless, and then go to http://y.sm5.us/ to see the admin interface.
I haven't configured mDNS yet, so accessing the interface via the wired interface on a Model B is a little trickier. It's setup to do DHCP on eth0, so if you have your raspi working now with DHCP, it should still work. You'll have to figure out what the IP address is by yourself, but that's the hardest part. I've configured my DHCP server to always hand out the same IP address to my raspi, so i just added the line
192.168.1.3 y.sm5.us
to the /etc/hosts file. Your raspi probably has a different IP address, so... substitute 192.168.1.3 with whatever your IP address is.
The interesting bit I'm trying to test out right now is to make sure the interface works with popular mobile phones and tablets. Unlike previous web experiments, I'm not doing anything fancy, so as long as you have a reasonably modern browser that handles JavaScript and jQuery, you should be fine.
If you have questions, comments or just want to tell me you tried it and it worked, ping me at @OhMeadhbh on twitter or via email at OhMeadhbh [at] gmail [dot] com.
-Cheers!
p.s. - like most of the project names I use, the name "starless" comes from a King Crimson song; "Starless and Bible Black" in this instance.
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