• Write image onto MicroSD
• Boot, take note of MAC addresses and add to LAN DHCP/DNS accordingly
• Run the resize_rootfs.sh script as root (its in /root)
• Change hostname (in both /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts) and reboot

• Set timezone: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
• Calibrate date/time: ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org
• Edit /etc/ntp.conf and start NTPD with /etc/init.d/ntp start

• Create desired login(s)

  groupadd -g 1xx0 yourgroup
  useradd -u 1xx0 -g 1xx0 -d /home/yourlogin -s /bin/bash -c "Your Name" -m yourlogin

• Add login(s) to groups (use id -a raspex to identify list of groups needed for admin login)

  usermod -a -G list,of,group,names yourlogin

• Add login to /etc/sudoers
• Delete default user: deluser raspex ; rm -rf /home/raspex

Edit /etc/slim.conf and change the auto_login value to no

• Wallpaper location: /usr/share/images/bunsen/wallpapers/default
• Disable conky: apt remove –purge conky conky-all

• apt install xscreensaver
• apt install git

• Get raspbian image (typically a ZIP from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian)
• Unzip image, write to SD card:

  dd if=raspbiandownload.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync

• Default login is pi with password raspberry

• Change root and pi passwords
• Enable SSH at boot, use raspi-config in the “Interfacing Options” section
• Add user, ensure groups, and sudoers
• Update host name in:
  • /etc/hostname
  • /etc/hosts
• If necesary, resize root partition, reboot, resize fs
• Install (via apt-get) some basics:
  • ksh
  • htop
  • xterm
  • rsync
  • git
  • libudev-dev
  • libusb-1.0-0-dev
  • libfox-1.6-dev
  • autotools-dev
  • autoconf
  • automake
  • libtool
  • xfe (optional)

See original for complete reference: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

• Configure gpu_mem=256 using raspi-config
• Configure this to be run at each boot (put in /etc/rc.local):

  echo "performance" | /usr/bin/tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

• Disable pulseaudio
  • In /etc/pulse/client.conf set autospawn=no and daemon-binary=/bin/true
• Install MythTV Light per instructions at https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_Light
  • In /etc/apt/sources.list add a line like:

    deb http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb stretch myth28

  • Add key:

    wget -O - https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=bintray | apt-key add -

  • apt update
  • apt install mythtv-light
  • apt install mythplugins-light

• Make a copy of /var to /home/sys
• Prune /home/sys/var
• Set up tmpfs mounts, like (pay attention to mode and size):
  tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,mode=0755,size=100m 0 0
  • /tmp, no mode, size=100M
  • /var/tmp, no mode, size=30M
  • /var/log, mode=0755, size=100M
  • /var/spool/mqueue, mode=700, gid=12, size=30M
• Clone source for USB relay control:

  git clone git://github.com/signal11/hidapi.git
  git clone https://github.com/darrylb123/usbrelay.git

• Build HIDAPI, cd to source dir and:

  ./bootstrap
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-testgui
  make
  make install

You need HIDAPI and USBRELAY:

git clone git://github.com/signal11/hidapi.git

Check out the readme, and install dependencies before installing.
then:

git clone https://github.com/darrylb123/usbrelay.git

Then, in usbrelay folder:

gcc -o usbrelay usbrelay.c -lhidapi-libusb

Then do:

ldconfig

Read more here:

• http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi/
• https://github.com/darrylb123/usbrelay

To get status:

./usbrelay 2>/dev/null

To get status in bash script:

$ eval $(sudo ./usbrelay 2>/dev/null)
$ echo $PSUIS_2

Turn on:

/usbrelay EO5ZA_1=1

Turn off:

/usbrelay EO5ZA_1=0