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Install CloudConnector on a Raspberry Pi

Install Raspbian​

  • Install the latest version of Raspbian. The headless Raspbian Lite version is recommended.
  • Enable the SSH-Service by creating an ssh file on the boot partition of the flashed image.
  • Connect to your Pi using SSH and perform an update:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Tip: You can use rsync to copy files to your Pi for further installation steps!

user@host: ~ $ rsync -v TapioCloudConnector.xml pi@host:/home/pi

Install the required runtimes​

Download the officially supported ASP.NET Core and .NET Core ARM32-Binaries. You can copy the download links of the binaries and use wget to download them to your Pi. Extract the binaries to a new directory e.g. /usr/share/dotnet and link the dotnet-Binary to /usr/bin/dotnet:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo mkdir /usr/share/dotnet
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tar xzf dotnet-runtime-3.0.1-linux-arm.tar.gz -C /usr/share/dotnet
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tar xzf aspnetcore-runtime-3.0.1-linux-arm.tar.gz -C /usr/share/dotnet
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/bin/dotnet

You can check if you created the symbolic link correctly by running which dotnet:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ which dotnet
/usr/bin/dotnet

To check if you installed the correct runtime versions of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core run dotnet --info:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dotnet --info
  It was not possible to find any installed .NET Core SDKs
  Did you mean to run .NET Core SDK commands? Install a .NET Core SDK from:
      https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 3.0.1
  Commit:  19942e7199

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  No SDKs were found.

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.0.1 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.0.1 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

Install CloudConnector​

Follow the installation guide for linux.

Access CloudConnector UI​

To access the CloudConnector UI you have to forward the local port 5555. You can do that by creating an SSH-Tunnel with PuTTY:

Putty SSH Tunnel

Using the configuration above you can access the CloudConnector UI running on your Pi by opening http://localhost:9001/ in your web browser.