Installation

Recommended: Use of preconfigured microSD Card image

1. Download the file image here, unzip it and use Etcher to copy it to your microSD card.
2. After the process is complete, the bcMeter booted with the newly written microSD-Card is creating a WiFi named "bcMeter" after approx. 2 Minutes. Log into the Wifi with Password bcMeterbcMeter Then you can setup the device by accessing it in a Browser by address http://bcmeter.local by default. For security reasons, the hotspot is closed after 10 Minutes without being hooked into a wifi. You can override it in the interface and set the corresponding parameter if you want to run the bcMeter permanently in hotspot mode.

Advanced: Manual headless Set Up the microSD Card

Use the Raspberry Imager tool to write Raspberry OS 32bit LITE (very important - not Desktop!) to your microSD card. Configure the Raspberry Pi Imager tool to configure the image with username and password, for simplicity we use "pi" and "raspberry".

Also enable SSH and WiFi in the tool.

After finishing, eject the microSD Card from the PC and put it into the Raspberry Pi.

Configuring the Raspberry Pi to be a bcMeter via SSH remote access and WiFi

Put microSD-Card in Raspberry and boot it up (takes up to a minute)

Log into the raspberry via terminal on Linux/OSX or cmd.exe on Windows

     ssh pi@raspberrypi 

or alternatively if connection is refused

     ssh pi@raspberrypi.local

Or to use with dedicated ssh client, like putty:

address: raspberrypi

login name: pi

login passwort: raspberry (or whatever you chose)

If connections is refused, check connection first and then try to add .local to hostname (raspberry.local)

Then just download the bcMeter install script by entering

      wget -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcmeter/bcmeter/main/install.sh && sudo bash install.sh