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rnode using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W ?
adingbatponder (Profile): (2025-02-03 23:08:00 (UTC)) [edited]
If anyone has a step-by-step suggestion on getting an rnode set up using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, I would be very grateful. I have all sorts of nodes (T114, RAK, T-beam etc.) to use and can flash them, it is the Pi side that I am flaky on e.g. what sofware to use. Thanks !
Just install your OS on the Pi as usual. Flash the node and connect it via usb to the Pi (you might need a dongle, the Zero 2W doesn't have full-size USB). Then you just need to install reticulum:
pip install rns (and any other software like nomadnet or lxmf if you want)
Now start nomadned/rnsd/... to create the default config file. After that edit it (it should be in ~/.reticulum/config ) and configure the node according to the documentation: https://reticulum.network/manual/interfaces.html#rnode-lora-interface
You might also want to connect to some public servers over the internet, which is also described on that page.
After you got that working, you should it set it up as a daemon so it runs in the background.
I hope that helps.
You should set enable_transport = True as well.
... and you might also need to run these commands to install dependencies for reticulum:
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-cryptography python3-pyserial
... and run pip with --break-system-packages because debian blocks user-wide python package installations by default
You can have a look at the manual here: https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html#raspberry-pi
Thank you very much indeed. That is great. I will get cracking on that as soon as the kit arrives. Great.
I note that Simon Phillips did a nice video on this on Youtube "Install and Configure Reticulum Network Stack RNS for RNode" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2sfkqeyQyg"