More Pie? We build and install a Raspberry pi to monitor our upgraded Victron system.
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Venus OS Pi Images
http://updates.victronenergy.com/feed...
Includes images for Pi2 (Pi3 here) and Pi4 and others.

Raspberry pi on Venus Guide - For reference and config.txt options
https://github.com/aaronsb/victronven...

GUI Mods
https://github.com/kwindrem/GuiMods

Dbus- Serial battery Driver for Venus OS:
https://github.com/Louisvdw/dbus-seri...

https://github.com/kwindrem/SetupHelper/raw/main/venus-data.tgz

Sailing Cadoha.
https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingCadoha?app=desktop
Battery / Pi video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrtDM1KFcg&t=287s

Himmelberger Bus
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFEXTRLf3iBK3BXzUS0UO6w
Pi Video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi6vhC5_YPA&t=263s
Raspberry pi 3:
https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-MS-004-00000024-Model-Board/dp/B01LPLPBS8/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1QANC7A27APCL&keywords=raspberry+pi+b3%2B&qid=1647792517&sprefix=Raspberry+pi+B3%2B%2Caps%2C354&sr=8-7
Screen:
https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-Official-Touch-Screen/dp/B073S3LQ6Q/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1AWL9XSM9TQW5&keywords=raspberry+pi+touchscreen&qid=1647792602&sprefix=raspberry+pi+touch+screen%2Caps%2C350&sr=8-4
Case:
https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Screen-Monitor-Touchscreen-Display/dp/B081VT2CPW/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2O6QBQ81STO4Z&keywords=raspberry+pi+7+inch+touch+screen+mount&qid=1647792670&sprefix=raspberry+pi+7+inch++touch+screen%2Caps%2C368&sr=8-3

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this
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is a raspberry pi
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and this
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is a raspberry pi
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one of these makes jolly good eating
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the other one
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well
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it controls your victron equipment
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guess which one we're going to show you
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how to make today
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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to follow this week's video you're going
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to need a dozen fresh eggs some plain
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flour and six ounces of fresh
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raspberries
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got ya
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what you really need is one of these
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this is a raspberry pi 3
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b plus
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so raspberry pi is a mini self-contained
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computer with usb ports and audio ports
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and all the other stuff that big
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computers have but just smaller you go
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online you'll see that there are
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thousands of projects that you can build
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with the raspberry pi from the simple to
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the very complex
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so we can see what we're doing
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we're going to use a seven 7-inch
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touchscreen and this plugs straight into
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the raspberry pi
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the whole lot goes together in this
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netty little case
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so that you can well
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put it where you want it now to power
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the computer and screen you're going to
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need a usb power supply like this one
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and again we bought that off the
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internet
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cheap as chips as it were
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no pun intended
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to connect your victron equipment to the
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raspberry pi you're going to need some
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usb cables like this
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and you're also going to need some
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connectors of this type
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now don't worry i'll list all of these
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things out for you and i'll give you
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links to websites where you can buy
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these things but they're all readily
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available on tinternet
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you're also going to need a couple of
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these
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and yes you know what these are
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they're cat 5 cables
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so here's my disclaimer i am not a
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computer whiz kid i am neither a geek
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nor nerd when it comes to computing
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the last time i did any computer
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programming
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was back in the 80s
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when i had a zx81
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and spent three days trying to program
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in a clock face
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i failed
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our friends on sailing cada made a
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fantastic video about changing to
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lithium and also fitting a victron
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multi-plus
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they use the same raspberry pi idea and
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it's that that inspired us to go another
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step further
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i'll leave a link below to both the
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video and their channel take a look
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there's some good stuff on there
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this is the last
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piece from tandial
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i
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hope that's not damaged
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so this is a raspberry pi
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screen
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this is a raspberry pi
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that's ribbon cable power cables
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that's the screen
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that
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is a raspberry pi screen case
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so that will go in there with the
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computer on the back
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start the divider and that is well that
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is a memory card
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with the software on so i'm going to put
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these together
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um
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i'll show you how that's done in a
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second
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so the first thing that you do
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is you want to undo these little screws
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on the back of this board
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what you have here is
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there's a ribbon cable goes in there and
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goes in there
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first you just want to screw this up and
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this is basically just a little computer
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um
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quite literally
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it doesn't have an operating system on
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it doesn't work by windows or um
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max software
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it's just a basic computer and you write
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your own software etc to go on there
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or other people write it and you
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plagiarize it so
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four screws to go in there
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it's got um
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an hdmi
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cable
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there that you can plug in it's got a
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sound little sound card on it
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it works by
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um
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usb
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which is five volts so you just put the
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usb cable on it now
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we've got usb chargers here but they're
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all kind of spoken for
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so what
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i've also ordered
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i'll show you in a second
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i'll just pinch those up
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one
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two
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three
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four what i've also got
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is this got this off the
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tinternet
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um
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i'll put links to the stuff
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that i've bought
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um probably an amazon link or something
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but we bought these from a company
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called trindol trinidad trendy one which
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is like turkish amazon yeah turkish
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hammers and turkish ebay
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so anyway getting back to this this is
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you put solder two wires on there one
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positive one negative they're marked on
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the back which one's positive and which
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one's negative
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and put 12 volts in and it converts it
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down to 5 volts at 3 amps i believe it
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is
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to power a usb and then of course your
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usb plug
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wire
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like that just plugs in there
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like
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so if i put it up the right way
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and now you've then converted 12 volts
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into
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usb power so i'm going to get a little
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plastic box to put that in solder it all
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up bob's your ankle finish your arm um
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right now i need to concentrate on
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putting this ribbon cable in
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probably do with my
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reading glasses
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fixing the raspberry pi to the seven
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inch screen is really self-explanatory
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there's four little screws
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that you just put through the board and
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it fixes on to the screen there's then a
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ribbon cable that connects now you can
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put this in the wrong way round but if
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you look you will see the little copper
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contacts face one way on one side and
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the other way on the other and you
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simply push them in push the little tabs
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up that hold the ribbon cable in place
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and then put it in the other side and
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push the little tabs in again on that
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one
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you can't really get it wrong well you
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can but it won't work
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you can see that is how that goes
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so the metal
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the metal strips are showing on that
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side
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on that one and on the top
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there
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and then we've got these power cables
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to put on
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once the ribbon cable is connected you
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then need to connect a positive and
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negative feed from the board to the
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screen
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onto that one there
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so let's show you guys
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first the black one negative goes on
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there which is the far left
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the positive red one goes on there the
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far right of the bottom board
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and then on
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the main raspberry pi
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it goes
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positive
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second terminal in
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and negative third term in the win and
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then we just want to push these
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gently out the way so we don't
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catch them on anything
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now
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here's our raspberry pi and it's
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connected to its uh
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seven inch touchscreen i've actually had
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this one running
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um i've taken it out in order to film
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this and show you what it was we had to
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do
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so
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i have already put the raspberry pi
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operating system
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on this raspberry pi and that's really
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easy to do i took a memory stick
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as i said i used the raspberry pi
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program on my mac which is this one here
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the imager
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downloaded the software the operating
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system
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put it on the raspberry pi booted it all
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up
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turned the bluetooth on turned the wi-fi
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on connected it all up yada yada
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and then when that was done uh shut it
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all down so that the actual computer
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here has the most up-to-date
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um
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i guess it's firmware operating system
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on it
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before i then alter it
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sounds strange well yeah it is a bit but
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um
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as i say it's not strictly necessary but
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i wanted to do it that way
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now the raspberry pi has a number of
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connections so it has
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four of these usb connections
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and then it has a lan connection
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local area network i believe that stands
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for
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there's our little um
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ribbon cable that ribbon cable
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allows the computer to drive the touch
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screen
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just below that ribbon cable don't if
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you can see in there
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hardly
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there is an sd
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slot for a micro sd
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um
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and a micro sd card is
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one of these type of things
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this one i prepared earlier
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and what we're going to do is we're
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going to put
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that into
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a normal sd
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card
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like that put it on the mac
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which will make it appear
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on my screen
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[Applause]
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hopefully
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then i'm going to go into my utilities
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and i'm going to format
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using disk utility
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i'm going to
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erase set which is format so it's quite
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important that we actually format the sd
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card first because we don't want
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anything to be on that card
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and that includes some of the software
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which sometimes comes with these cards
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so format the software sorry format the
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card and take everything off there so
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you're sure you've got a clean card and
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the next thing you're going to be doing
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is you're going to be adding the victron
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software which is freely available you
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go to this website address again i'll
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put this in the notes
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but if you look you can see what the
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address is here
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and then you want to go to raspberry pi
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2
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software so this is the next page so on
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that page you can see that we have venus
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image raspberry pi 2
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dot
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w i c dot gz and you want to download
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this file directly to your downloads
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folder do not
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open it
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repeat do not open it
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it has to be flashed across and to do
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that you need the file in its format
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that it comes in
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so this is also available as a zip file
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if you're running windows now in order
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to get this file to flash onto your sd
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drive you'll need this little app called
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bellina etcher it's free and it works on
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both map and
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windows
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so i'll leave a link to that as well in
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the description
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that's done
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and then what i'm going to do is i'm
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going to get
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that application that we talked about
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earlier
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lena etcher
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open that up
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um we're going to flash from file
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lina etcher gets opened
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flash from file
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raspberry pi 2
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select the target which is that little
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usb drive
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um
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seven gigs i believe is on there is that
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right
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yeah
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select that
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flash it over
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it will want the password
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don't look
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it's flashing the drive
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daddy daddy dart
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now what should happen
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is i put that
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card
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if you can see that it is very tight in
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there
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into the card reader on the raspberry pi
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that's in
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and then we
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[Applause]
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see what happens
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there we go
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so there it is it's booting up
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it's actually upside down
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[Music]
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okay so once you've got that victron
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software flashed across and onto your
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machine
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what you need to do
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is to find out what the ip address
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of your raspberry pi is now you can do
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that either through the bluetooth
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software or just go to your router
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and you can see our raspberry pi there
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one nine two one six eight thirty six
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two forty
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now the reason we're able to do that is
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because we've used the cat5 cable to
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connect our raspberry pi directly to our
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lan local area network or router
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if you can't do that then simply open up
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the bluetooth software on your phone
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and use the following method of finding
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your ip address
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open up the raspberry pi and then open
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up the settings in the top right hand
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corner
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this will open up a second window which
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says network settings and then you click
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on ethernet settings
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the next window that will open up
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will give you the ip address and you can
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see it here at 192 168 36 240
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now
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just a word of warning your ip address
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may not be the same it will differ from
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machine to machine so you need to go
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through this process to find out what
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your actual
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ip address is
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for your raspberry pi
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so at this point you simply type that ip
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address or numbers including the dots
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into your web browser
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and this is what will come up
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so you'll see it will come up like that
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as a series of hotkeys so this is now
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logged on to the software
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which is running on the
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raspberry pi
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the next thing you need to do is add the
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setup helper from gui mods now you
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simply put this to a formatted usb drive
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yes usb this time
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here's the link to the page that you
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need to go to again i'll put this in the
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description
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scroll down and find the latest version
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of the helper and as you scroll down
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you'll see there's some his interest in
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the help text
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the file you're looking for is this one
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setup helper
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now again you simply transfer this over
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to the usb stick do not unpack it or
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unzip it
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and what we're going to do is click on
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here go to menu
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go to settings
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and
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go to
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general
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i'm gonna put on remote support
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and what i'm going to do is i'm going to
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reboot the software and i'm going to put
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the camera down a minute
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to do this because
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oh no it's there
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all right
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so i think it's in general
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reboot and you hit the reboot
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twice
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so reboot once
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now once you have rebooted this twice
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you then take out the usb stick
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and what should happen
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is that you will then have an extra page
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of settings which you can adjust which
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have been put onto the software by the
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gui mods helper let's show you that
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and once you get to um
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onto your remote
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settings from the ip address in the
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browser
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if you go all the way down
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to
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right at the bottom is it settings
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these settings the very last one
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you will find this one here package
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manager i'm not package manager
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and you will see that it says github
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downloads etc etc etc
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so first one is this one which is
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for downloading
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and
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i had it on fast and then normal and now
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it's on not normal
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um
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it it will
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automatically
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do the um github downloads
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so using this extra menu and package you
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can automatically update all of these
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gui mods
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and that includes the drivers for the
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seven inch touchscreen
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which is just fantastic
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and you can set it to auto update for
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all the other bits and pieces that are
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in there now i could go into all the
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details but i think you should discover
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it for yourself
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this is a really cheap mod that works
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extremely well
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so another source of information is this
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youtube channel called himmelberger bus
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now sean who runs the channel has done a
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whole video on this victron upgrade it's
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really worth going and watching and he
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goes into a lot more detail than i have
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here now i've contacted sean and
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actually we're hoping to do a
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collaboration video later on for both
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boat users and rv users
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watch this space connecting all of your
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various pieces of victron kit
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to the raspberry pi is really quite
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straightforward we've got two pv charge
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regulators uh bm 712 battery monitor and
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of course a multi-plus
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and they're all connected through these
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usb ports
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now on the bottom of your victron
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equipment you'll see there's a little
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4-pin connection bar
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so this little connector port
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on the bottom left-hand side uses a jst
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type connector
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and it's this that you have to solder
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onto the usb cable in order to get the
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communications correct
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now you can make these leads quite long
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as are about three meters where they go
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back to our charge regulators but some
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of them are two meters
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you need to get the connections the
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right way around otherwise you can do
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some damage there's only three cables
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that actually connect
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and therefore we thought we'd show you
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the right way to do it
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with the jst cable this way up that's
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the two indents facing down and the four
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tabs facing up
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you simply change the red cable to a
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green one and then all the other cables
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line up
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black on the bottom
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green in the center
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and then white on the third pin the
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fourth pin does nothing you can remove
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this
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you should also remove the red cable
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from the usb end
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that way you won't get confused remember
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it's the black the green and the white
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that need to align no other cables
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as long as you follow this coding you
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can make these quite long
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we didn't actually change the red cable
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we just marked it with some green heat
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shrink as you can see here
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now you can actually buy these
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connection usb cables direct from
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victron but they're very expensive
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they're around 27
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i believe each
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making them this way makes them around
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three dollars each we'll put an amazon
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link or something where you can get them
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in the description the new panels are
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now in then i've made a new
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plastic backing
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this is a piece of leather patented
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patent
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plastic
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victron
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battery monitors there this is our
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diesel heater
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this is the
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panel
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we hold our
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finger on something like that
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and
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there we are
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it tells you details on the batteries
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do that on the inverter
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we can turn the inverter on off charger
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only
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yada yada yada tells us all the
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information
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at the same it tells us what our ac
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loads are
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what our photovoltaics our solar cells
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are
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providing and how much our um
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how much uh dc we're using 12 volts
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around the boat we've got some lights on
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and
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other bits and pieces at the moment
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customizing the system once you've got
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it set up
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so the lan connection is really handy it
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allows you to work from a computer
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setting up and customizing all the
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screens that you want to see
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we've got as now set up as the mains
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grid coming in in red and of course on
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float is our inverter charger we've got
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our ac load showing
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and then our pv chargers red charge
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regulators both of them showing
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our dc system which is currently using
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104 watts 7 amps that's because we've
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got our diesel heater going it's quite
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cold
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the other thing that you can do is that
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you can use this setup
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while it's connected to your local area
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network to monitor what's going on
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remotely
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and perhaps do more about that at a
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later date but yes you can keep records
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and you can remotely monitor what's
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going on providing your boat is
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connected to some form of wi-fi
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connection
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particularly useful if you're away from
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the boat
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well as you can see from my netty mood
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lighting and shadow effects it's now
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sunday evening and i still haven't
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finished editing the video
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um
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there's lots of information in there
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and it's quite a lot to take in so
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really we should have done this in two
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videos but i wanted to kind of show you
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the gist and perhaps show you some more
26:38
details a bit later on when we've put
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the system through its paces but
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hopefully you've you've got the idea of
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what we what we're trying to do
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don't forget to watch the other people's
26:48
videos that we've recommended there's
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some really great information in there
26:53
that will be a lot of use and help to
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you especially if you're thinking of
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using a raspberry pi it's a great little
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piece of kit you know you can do all
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sorts of things with it um it will run
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open cpn it will run its own raspberry
27:08
pi software which is a bit like um
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a bit like windows but but a lot simpler
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it will take mail
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they're fantastic little computer i
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didn't know much about them before and
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i'm learning an awful lot very quickly
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you