Rasp­berry PI In­stall­a­tion Guide

This guide supports you in setting up a wireless acoustic sensor network on Raspberry PIs. To this end we briefly describe the operating system installation and the basic software package setup which is required by MARVELO.  An automatic console script for linux is described in the next section, either you do the installation by hand or you try the script in the next section (your choice!). But before you have to download a current Debian Image and burn it to a SD-Card (this basic step is not part of the script!).

  1. Download a current Linux image from the official Raspberry Pi Website
    https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
    We suggest to use the "Raspbian Stretch with Desktop" version.
  2. Follow the installation guide on the Raspberry Pi Website to install the image on a 16GB SD-Card
  3. Grab Marvello from https://github.com/CN-UPB/MARVELO

Pre­par­ing Rasperry Pi's to be part of a sensor net­work

We have created an installation script for setting up a Raspberry Pi Model 3b+. Take a SD card and burn the image on the SD card.

Call: sh piconfigscript.sh /dev/sdb yourpi1 10.0.66.1

The first parameter defines the card reader device (use lsblk to find yours) which should have to parts (e.g., /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2). The second parameter defines the name of your pi (e.g., yourpi1) and the last parameter defines the AD-Hoc wlan address of the pi (e.g., 10.0.66.1).

The script you find here:  piconfigscript.sh

  1. Activate SSH by adding empty file named "ssh" to /boot on mounted SD-Card
  2. Keep LAN configured with DHCP support, or change it to your needs
  3. Configure WLAN to AD-Hoc Mode and ESSID "ASN"
    Add the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces
    Replace YourIP with the IP-Adress of your node

    auto wlan0
    iface wlan0 inet static
       address     YourIP
       netmask 255.255.0.0
       wireless-channel 1
       wireless-essid ASN
       wireless-mode ad-hoc

    auto eth0
    iface eth0     inet dhcp
  4. Create user asn (id 1001, group 1000) with home directory /home/asn
  5. Add YourNode and other hosts to /etc/hosts

    127.0.1.1     YourNode
    YourIP   YourNode
    10.0.1.1       asnupb1
    10.0.2.1       asnrub1
    10.0.3.1       asnfau1

    Project intern we use the following ranges for our nodes
    UPB: 10.0.1.1 -> 10.0.1.255
    RUB: 10.0.2.1 -> 10.0.2.255
    FAU: 10.0.3.1 -> 10.0.3.255

Up­date the In­stall­a­tion

It is always a good idea to update a new installation to fix recently found bugs. The easiest way is to connect the pi to a network with DHCP server running and serving adresses. The Pi will receive an address and you can update the system. Alternatively, you may connect to the Pi via the AD-HOC network "ASN" and use your Laptop as intermediate system to gain internet access. Again your choice.
Please perform the following steps

  1. Beomce root on the pi by: sudo -i
  2. rpi-update
  3. apt-get update
  4. apt-get upgrade

Install the following packages via apt-get install

  1. ansible
  2. build-essential
  3. cmake

Use the script Installscripts.zip to install Python3.6.5

In­stalling Tensor­flow on a PI

Installing Tensorflow on a PI last a few hours! We follow the installation guide on github.com/samjabrahams/tensorflow-on-raspberry-pi/blob/master/GUIDE.md and made some changes to get it running. Here a short summary is presented.

Perform the following steps to prepare the Tensorflow installation on your PI.

  1. apt-get install pkg-config zip g++ zlib1g-dev unzip
  2. apt-get install python-pip python-numpy swig python-dev
  3. apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev
  4. apt-get install libhdf5-dev libffi-dev
  5. apt-get install libsamplerate0 libsamplerate0-dev
  6. pip3.6 install virtualenv
  7. pip3.6 install matplotlib
  8. pip3.6 install Cython
  9. pip3.6 install scipy
  10. pip3.6 install pandas==0.19.2
  11. pip3.6 install git+https://github.com/cournape/samplerate.git
  12. pip install wheel
  13. apt-get install python3-pip python3-numpy swig python3-dev
  14. pip3.6 install wheel
  15. pip3.6 install numpy
  16. apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8
  17. update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 100
  18. update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8 100
  19. mkdir tf
  20. cd tf

Get Bazel by

  1. wget github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/0.12.0/bazel-0.12.0-dist.zip
  2. unzip -d bazel bazel-0.12.0-dist.zip
  3. cd bazel
  4. Modify file: nano scripts/bootstrap/compile.sh

    Move down to line 117, where you'll see the following block of code:

    run "${JAVAC}" -classpath "${classpath}" -sourcepath "${sourcepath}" \
    -d "${output}/classes" -source "$JAVA_VERSION" -target "$JAVA_VERSION" \
    -encoding UTF-8 "@${paramfile}"

    At the end of this block, add in the -J-Xmx500M flag, which sets the maximum size of the Java heap to 500 MB:

    run "${JAVAC}" -classpath "${classpath}" -sourcepath "${sourcepath}" \ -d "${output}/classes" -source "$JAVA_VERSION" -target "$JAVA_VERSION" \ -encoding UTF-8 "@${paramfile}" -J-Xmx500M
  5. Modify another file: nano tools/cpp/lib_cc_configure.bzl

    Place the line return "arm" at the beginning of the _get_cpu_value function:
    ...
    "    ""Compute the cpu_value based on the OS name."""
    return     "arm"
    ...

  6. ./compile.sh

Now bazel should be compiled and after an hour of coffee drinking you should get a "successfull" message.

Download Tensorflow ( Version v1.5.0 works with this description)
  1. git clone --branch v1.5.0 --recurse-submodules github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow.git
  2. cd tensorflow
  3. grep -Rl 'lib64' | xargs sed -i 's/lib64/lib/g'

We also tried other versions of tensorflow, e.g., v1.6.0-rc1, but they broke down somewhere with a lot of errors.

Please specify the location of python. [Default is /usr/bin/python]: /usr/local/bin/python3.6

Please input the desired Python library path to use.  Default is [/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages]

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with jemalloc as malloc support? [Y/n]: Y
jemalloc as malloc support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Google Cloud Platform support? [Y/n]: N
No Google Cloud Platform support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Hadoop File System support? [Y/n]: N
No Hadoop File System support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Amazon S3 File System support? [Y/n]: N
No Amazon S3 File System support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Apache Kafka Platform support? [y/N]: N
No Apache Kafka Platform support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with XLA JIT support? [y/N]: N
No XLA JIT support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with GDR support? [y/N]: N
No GDR support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with VERBS support? [y/N]: N
No VERBS support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with OpenCL SYCL support? [y/N]: N
No OpenCL SYCL support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with CUDA support? [y/N]: N
No CUDA support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with MPI support? [y/N]: N
No MPI support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

  • bazel build -c opt --copt="-mfpu=neon-vfpv4" --copt="-funsafe-math-optimizations" --copt="-ftree-vectorize" --copt="-fomit-frame-pointer" --local_resources 1024,1.0,1.0 --verbose_failures tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
  • bazel-bin/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/build_pip_package /tmp/tensorflow_pkg
  • pip install /tmp/tensorflow_pkg/tensorflow-1.1.0-cp27-none-linux_armv7l.whl
  • Turn of swap: swapoff /dev/XXX
  • Finally, remove the line you wrote in /etc/fstab referencing the device
    sudo nano /etc/fstab
  • Then reboot your Raspberry Pi.

In­stall MAR­VELO

Download the current MARVELO Code.

Further information:

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