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The Dashboard is commonly setup with a large screen, providing members with a way to see what’s going on – without having to look at the BART Team app on their individual devices.
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To connect your Raspberry Pi to your chosen WIFI connection:
1. Purchase a ‘Raspberry ‘Raspberry Pi 3’3’, which has built in WIFI
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3. Contact the BART team to get your pre-loaded Micro SD card
4. Load your SD card into an SD card reader connected to your PC or Mac
5. Open your SD card in Widows file explorer or Mac finder – it will be called “Boot”
6. Open the file ‘fullpageos-network.txt’ in Notepad for PC or Nano for Mac (open terminal and type “nano/Volumes/boot/ fullpageos-network.txt”)
7. You will find full instructions at the top and bottom of the page
8. You will also see 3 login options:
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Plug in a monitor and keyboard and mouse to the raspberry pi
5. Once booted into the dashboard press 'Ctrl Alt and F1' together to get to the console.
6. Type in ‘raspberry’ as the password
7. Type 'sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'
8. You should see in the config file:
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## WPA/WPA2 secured |
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## WEP secured |
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#} |
9. You must remove the # under ‘network’ and enter the ssid (WiFi name) and psk (password):
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## OpenWPA/unsecured |
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WPA2 secured |
10. By deleting the single hash (#) characters at the front of the settings you choose – this , will change the lines from being text notes to active code
11. Replace “put SSID here” with your login name, but do not Be careful not to remove the “ ” (double quotation marks)
12. Replace the “out password here” with your password, and again retain the “ ” (double quotation marks)13. Save your file
1413. To test whether you have been successful:
- Attach your monitor or TV with an HDMI cable
- Connect the Raspberry Pi to the power
- Turn on the Raspberry Pi
15. If your WIFI WiFi details are correct, the BART screen will boot up and you will be away and running
16. If the BART screen doesn’t boot up in a short amount of time, you will need to check your WIFI WiFi modem for the correct login type and details
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