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Getting the Rasberry 5 up and running

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Raspberry 5 arrived this morning. It's been a crazy day but my mission tonight is to get it up and running before I go to bed.


I connected it to my TV via HDMI, connected it to my keyboard via USB to power, put a preconfigured mini SD 32GB card in it, and loaded up the software updates.





I am currently sitting on floor in my outdoor man cave as I coudnt get the old i-mac to work due to incorrect cable type, so borrowed a TV and its a bit too big so the TV is propped on the floor, the Pi hanging off it and the keyvboard on the floor.


It's all loaded up. I don't have a mouse and the shift button is overrated.




In mean time I need to go and get approvals for a not-for-resale licence from Solarwinds Observability. The licence is approved, it takes a full business day for the licence to appear. The Raspberry 5 has an on/off button so for now its good night.


Monitor arrived, i purchased a £2.99 mouse from Robert Dyaz and I put the circuit board into a better home. Now I have a complete mini computer. A Raspberry 5, keyboard, mouse, monitor and no longer need to sit on the floor.




Then I connected it all up and opened up a terminal prompt and installed python.

Most distributions of Linux come with Python 3 already installed, but they might not have IDLE, the default IDE (interactive development environment), installed.

I used apt to check whether they were installed and it wasnt so installed them.

  • Opened a terminal window and type:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3 idle3

This installed Python 3 (and IDLE), and now have it in my application menu




Once installed I still coudnt get work to solve the trial and not for resale licence so spun up another free 30 day trial with SolarWinds Observability to hit the first goal and milestone. Can I use without a fixed public IP address the User activity monitoring agent set up and working and connected back to the SolarWinds Observability system. It was fairly straight forward and I am pleased to say that the service is now running on the Raspberry and I am able to collect the data from the Raspberry host and also added the script to pull the logs as well.


I originally tried and thought of deploying a network collector but this is a house of no Microsoft devices so using a collector is a non starter. I will take the hosts infrastructure approach instead. Feedback to product, why do we only have a network collector for Windows. I want one for Linux.


For the interest of security, there is a deliberate flare in the pictures masking key information.



Yes is the simple answer.






That Mission one complete. .


The next big milestone step, getting telemetry data from the car over wifi to the Pi.

Then the big step after that, getting the telemetry data ingested into SWO and visible in a dashboard. Lets see, its time to call on some friends and professional expertise to get this one moving a bit quicker.






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