Banana Pi Cookbook电子书

Banana Pi Cookbook

Table of Contents

Banana Pi Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

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Questions

1. Installation and Setup

Introduction

Banana Pi Overview

Operating systems for the Banana Pi

Android

Linux

Downloading an operating system for the Banana Pi

Getting ready

How to do it…

See also

Setting up the SD card on Windows

Getting ready

How to do it…

Writing an Android image to the SD card on Windows

Writing a Linux distribution image to the SD card on Windows

How it works…

See also

Setting up the SD card on Linux

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Booting up and shutting down the Banana Pi

Getting ready

How to do it…

Booting up

Shutting down Android

Shutting down Linux

How it works…

See also

2. Administration

Introduction

Determining the IP address and hostname

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Connecting via SSH on Windows using PuTTY

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Connecting via SSH on Unix-like systems

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

User maintenance

Getting ready

How to do it…

Adding a new user

Setting a password for a user

Deleting a user

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Searching, installing, and removing the software

Getting ready

How to do it…

Searching for packages

Installing a package

Removing a package

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Updating the operating system

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Wireless network on the Banana Pro

Getting ready

How to do it…

Loading the ap6210 module

Configuring the wireless network with WiFi Config

Configuring the wireless network manually

How it works…

There's more…

3. External Disks

Introduction

Mounting a USB drive

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Mounting an SSD or HDD via SATA

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Mounting via fstab

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Booting from an external disk

Getting ready

How to do it…

Formatting the drive

Copying the root filesystem and editing uEnv.txt

How it works…

See also

4. Networking

Introduction

Sharing files over the network via Samba

Getting ready

How to do it…

Installing the Samba server

Accessing the Samba share on Windows

Accessing the Samba share on Linux manually

Accessing the Samba share on Linux using fstab

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Setting up a web application

Getting ready

How to do it…

Installing the Nginx web server

Installing the PHP scripting language

Installing the MySQL database server

Installing WordPress

How it works…

There's more…

Setting up PhpMyAdmin

Other technologies

See also

Securing the Nginx web server using SSL

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating the certificate

Configuring Nginx to use an SSL certificate

How it works…

There's more…

Importing a self-signed certificate on Windows

Importing a self-signed certificate on Linux

See also

Synchronizing files over the Internet

Getting ready

How to do it…

Setting up a Dynamic DNS

Updating the Dynamic DNS hostname

Setting up a port forwarding

Installing ownCloud

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Controlling the desktop remotely using VNC

Getting ready

How to do it…

Installing the VNC server on the Banana Pi

Installing and using a VNC client on Windows

Installing and using a VNC client on Linux

How it works…

There's more…

Adding a SSH tunnel for VNC in PuTTY

Using an SSH tunnel for VNC on Linux

See also

Securing SSH using SSH keys

Getting ready

How to do it…

Using SSH keys in PuTTY

Using SSH keys on Linux

Disabling the SSH password login on the Banana Pi

How it works…

See also

Setting up a UPnP media server

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

5. Using the GPIO Pins

Introduction

Lighting up an LED using the gpio command

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

The Banana Pi pin layout

The Banana Pro pin layout

Using a GPIO extension board

See also

Programming the LED

Getting ready

How to do it…

Programming the LED with C

Programming the LED with Python

How it works…

Explaining the C code

Explaining the Python code

Using the GPIO input with a pushbutton

Getting ready

How to do it…

Preparing the circuit

Programming the software

How it works…

Explaining the C code

There's more…

See also

6. Multimedia

Introduction

Configuring the audio device

Getting ready

How to do it…

Configuring HDMI pass-through

Configuring analog audio

Testing the audio output

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Getting accelerated video playback

Getting ready

How to do it…

Preparing the building of the required components

Building and activating the hardware-accelerating components

Installing and configuring MPlayer

Installing and configuring VLC media player

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Setting up Kodi

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Setting up an infrared remote control using LIRC

Getting ready

How to do it…

Configuring LIRC to recognize the remote control

Controlling applications using the remote control

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Index