Bring together users, potential buyers and those interested in Raspberry Pi's via a community night event to learn and share about the uses of Pi's in our hobby [and more generally]

Thursday 14 April 2022 20:00

Please add to the following talking points. Although a small presentation might be needed the hope is that it can be a practical demonstration by a number of us.

• Brief overview of pi's available
• Tour of a pi
• Pi Star - throughout the evening, build a hotspot
  • Show where to buy
  • Assemble from basics
  • Flash Memory Card
  • Carry out initial setup
  • Make contact over OARC bridge
• Remote RTL-SDR
• Can someone share how to use/uses of docker on a Pi? [2E0UMS suggestion]
• Use Cases
  • FT8 via WSJT-X including setting up FLDigi to control radio [2E0UMS]
  • Logging QSOs on Pi [2E0UMS]
    • Cloudlog
• Q&A (see section below)
• Non amateur uses
  • Plex
  • Retropie
  • Flight Tracking (using RTL SDR sticks)
  • RTL_Airband [Danielle]
  • KVM
  • Home Automation e.g https://www.home-assistant.io/

• Overview of current pi's available
• Demonstration of setting up a pi for the first time
• A few examples of using amateur tools on raspbian [M0TZO/2E0UMS screen share]
• Demo building a hotspot
• more examples of using pi's [doesn't have to be amateur]
• Creating a remote rx station using RTL_SDR
• Other examples, discussing good practice/ideas

Please contribute questions and collectively we might have the answer