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There is nothing special about setting Raspberry Pi 2 (RPi2 for short) for IoT.js, but these are the steps to prepare RPi2 that we work on.

Preparation

  • Raspberry Pi 2 board
  • MicroSD at least 8GB and USB Adaptor
  • Network

Download image file

Raspbian is used throughout this page. See downloads page. Download URL is http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest

Write to MicroSD

Follow the steps as described in Installing-images page.

First Boot

Plugin MicroSD and power up. raspi-config will show up. Read raspi-config page and look around. This is what I've done.

  • Expand FileSystem
  • Change User Password
    • default user id is pi and password is raspberry
  • Change Locale and Timezone
  • In advanced options, disable Overscan
  • Set hostname, enable SSH

After reboot

  • login with pi
  • Set Network, default is DHCP. If you prefer static IP
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

in my case;

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
 
address a.b.c.d
netmask 255.255.255.0
network a.b.c.0
broadcast a.b.c.255
gateway a.b.c.1
 
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp

set a.b.c to your address.

  • name server
sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf

append your nameservers

  • and other things
    • proxy environment
    • apt-get proxy

Reference

Using Ubuntu image

You can also use Ubuntu instead of Raspbian. Setup instructions are the same as above, the only difference is to burn sdcard with Ubuntu image. You can download the image from here.