There are several ways to start using your AlarmDecoder with the Raspberry Pi. While you can use all of the AlarmDecoder products with the Raspberry Pi, the AD2PI was specifically designed to interface with it directly. If you're attempting to connect an AD2USB or an AD2SERIAL please follow the standard Linux instructions here.
There are a couple of steps involved with getting your AD2PI and Raspberry Pi talking to each other. We've done all the initial footwork and highly recommend downloading the modified Raspbian image below and flashing it to a 8g uSD disk or larger using a simple too such as Etcher or Rufus or following the instructions as described here. If you intend to go with another distribution, or just want to do it yourself, then follow the instructions here to start using your device.
Official Raspbian Image
Changes from Raspbian
- Disabled serial console so that the device can use it.
- Installed ser2sock to expose the AlarmDecoder on your network.
- Installed the AlarmDecoder Python library.
- Installed and configured the AlarmDecoder Webapp Instructions.
- And much much more. See the PiBakery recipe for more details.
Download
| Status | Link | Version | MD5 | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Testing | Download | Raspbian Buster 10 PiBakery build (Latest build 08/15/2019) |
zip: e87cd27f18a5c07c1e2b75400a08c030 img: 5f3eb62b3862575f2604e41c9808672f | 2019-07-20 updated AlarmDecoder 1.13.8, AlarmDecoder-webapp 0.8.6, Added packages, Built using a PiBakery recipe See the AlarmDecoder PiBakery wiki page. Update boot partition for newer Pi4 hardware. Disable BT to allow AD2pHat to use hardware serial on GPIO. |
| Stable | Download | Raspbian Buster 10 PiBakery build (Latest build 08/15/2019) |
zip: e87cd27f18a5c07c1e2b75400a08c030 img: 5f3eb62b3862575f2604e41c9808672f | 2019-07-20 updated AlarmDecoder 1.13.8, AlarmDecoder-webapp 0.8.6, Added packages, Built using a PiBakery recipe See the AlarmDecoder PiBakery wiki page. |
| Issues | Download | Raspbian Buster 10 PiBakery build (Missing packages) |
zip: e1190b702baf443ee73e6afb982e4fa7 img: 78e06d89dd41a13a288005dc000bee6c | 2019-07-20 updated AlarmDecoder 1.13.7, AlarmDecoder-webapp 0.8.4, Built using a PiBakery recipe See the AlarmDecoder PiBakery wiki page. |
| Stable | Download | Raspbian Stretch 9.0 PiBakery build | zip: cc7e267d2f3bd377a239b3ebc996f491 img: 275635f7ca7ad70e951bea1f68593c86 | 2018-10-14 updated AlarmDecoder 1.13.4, AlarmDecoder-webapp 0.8.2, Built using a PiBakery recipe See the AlarmDecoder PiBakery wiki page. |
| Stable | Download | Raspbian Jessie 8.0 | zip: 3a001426b1a3a2793bea589cfc93be39 img: c5e50da07e5d084ad76abd591ab605f2 | 2018-05-29 updated AlarmDecoder 1.13.4, AlarmDecoder-webapp 0.8.2, Supports the Raspberry Pi Model B, B+ and B2, and B3. Wifi and Bluetooth are both functional on the Pi 3 |
Manual Configuration
- Flash the SD card with your choice of OS as described here.
- Flashing tools quick pick
- Etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/
- Rufus https://rufus.ie/
- Flashing tools quick pick
- Boot up the Raspberry Pi.
- Remove the following entries from /boot/cmdline.txt:
- console=ttyAMA0,115200
- kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200
- Remove the following line from /etc/inittab:
- T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAMA0 115200 vt100
- Sync and halt your Raspberry Pi.
- Attach the AD2PI.
- Boot it up again.
- At this point you should be able to communicate with the device at /dev/ttyAMA0.
- Install any optional software (ser2sock, Python library, etc.)
- Add dev package needed for compiling ser2sock
- sudo apt-get install openssl-dev
- The AlarmDecoder WEB App install instructions are here
- Add dev package needed for compiling ser2sock
Default Passwords
- Passwords should be changed once you get your device!
SSH/Shell
- Login
- pi
- Password
- raspberry
AlarmDecoder WebApp
- Login
- admin
- Password
- alarmdecoder