ansible playbooks for managing helium hotspots
sudo apt-get install ansible sshpass
Flash this image to a 32GB or larger microSD card. https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2021-11-08/
This SD card is recommended: https://amzn.to/340Ut7f
Afer writing out the image, enable ssh access by touching a file named ssh in the root of the SD card. The volume name of the SSD card is 'boot'. On Mac: touch /Volumes/boot/ssh On Linux: touch /ssh
Connect the miner to your network and get its IP address. Test connectivity. The password is raspberry.
ssh pi@<that ip>
Change the line eu868 to us915 if you are in the US. Enter the ip in to hosts.yml for the ansible_host variable
all:
children:
eu868:
hosts:
hotspot:
ansible_host: 192.168.0.12
ansible_user: pi
ansible_ssh_pass: raspberry
ansible_become: true
target_hostname: "hotspot-animal-name" # your hotspot name
target_domain: "local" #
target_hotspot_vendor: "cotx" # cotx or pisces or rakv2
target_miner_key: True #
target_pf_concentrator_interface: "spi" # usb
target_pf_concentrator_model: "sx1250" # only sx1250 for now
# Tailscale subnet to subroute traffic https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets/
#tailscale_subnet_cidr: 192.168.0.1/24
Turn openvpn on in group_vars/all.yaml
enable_openvpn: True # Also need to define openvpn_config
If you wish to use tailscale, please install the dependencies:
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
Then change enable_tailscale: True in group_vars/all.yml
Install everything on your miner
ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml rpi.yml
This gives a lot of interesting information
ssh pi@<ip>
docker exec miner miner info summary
If you want specific things you can see a list of options by running
$ docker exec miner miner info
Usage: miner info commands
info height - Get height of the blockchain for this miner.
info in_consensus - Show if this miner is in the consensus_group.
info name - Shows the name of this miner.
info block_age - Get age of the latest block in the chain, in seconds.
info p2p_status - Shows key peer connectivity status of this miner.
info onboarding - Get manufacturing and staking details for this miner.
info summary - Get a collection of key data points for this miner.
info region - Get the operatating region for this miner.
pi@my-hot-spot:~ $ docker exec miner miner info summary
This will ask you to enter your 12 words and then you can use the cli wallet to manage the hotspot HELIUM_WALLET_PASSWORD='wallet password' helium-wallet create basic --seed mobile -o ~/helium/keys/${hotspot}.key
to assert. HELIUM_WALLET_PASSWORD='wallet password' helium-wallet --format json -f ${key_file} hotspots assert --gateway ${hotspot_address} --gain=${gain} --elevation=${elevation} --lat=${lat} --lon=${lon} --commit
You can join #diy-packet-fowarder on https://discord.com/invite/helium
"+ sh -c DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y -qq --no-install-recommends docker-ce-cli docker-ce >/dev/null", "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"]
ssh pi@<ip>
sudo systemctl restart systemd-networkd.service
sudo apt remove docker-ce
sudo apt install docker.io
sudo enable docker
sudo reboot now
Run ansible-playbook again
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