APGateway

Consists of

• registrationserver, a http server used for automatic adding of new PoECams
• capture, an application that downloads captures from the connected cameras
• configserver, a local http server to configure the system

Setup

Write Raspberry Pi OS to an SD card

• Download Raspberry Pi Imager and run it
• Select OS → Raspberry Pi OS (other) → Raspberry Pi OS Lite
• Click CTRL + SHIFT + X to enter advanced options
• Check the button next to enable SSH
• Set an SSH password
• Enter Wifi credentials (best is a smartphone hotspot) and set the WiFi-country
• Click Save
• Select your SD card
• Click Write

Access the Raspberry Pi

• Insert the SD card into the Raspberry Pi
• Plug in the power supply
• If you are using a smartphone hotspot, you will see a connected device and its ip
• Open a cmd terminal and type ssh pi@<raspberrypi_hostname>.local , e.g.

ssh [email protected]

• enter your password
• If you have chosen a weak password, change the password with:

passwd

Install the APGateway applications

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WullT/APGateway/main/scripts/clone_install_add_services.sh | bash

Change login credentials for configserver

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/configserver.service

In line 10, change username (default admin) and password (default CHANGE_ME)

To apply changes, run

sudo systemctl restart configserver.service

Mount a USB storage device

• format the USB stick / Harddisk to ntfs
• give it a name
• on the Raspberry Pi, create a new directory, e.g.

mkdir /mnt/usb

• edit /etc/fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

• append this line to the file, change LABEL=data to the name of your storage device.

LABEL=data /mnt/usb ntfs defaults,auto,users,rw,nofail,umask=000,x-systemd.device-timeout=30 0 0

• reboot the Raspberry Pi

Static networks

Edit /etc/network/interfaces

Example with an additional interface (USB-ethernet dongle → eth1):

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

auto lo eth0 eth1 wlan0

allow-hotplug eth0
  iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug eth1
 iface eth1 inet static
   address 192.168.50.1/24

allow-hotplug wlan0
 iface wlan0 inet dhcp
 wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf