PiBakery - How to: Easy cookie cutter Flarum Pi dev box

0E800

Ive been messing around with PiBakery.
https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery

I will attempt to create a Flarum recipe for easy installation.
There is already a 'block' for LAMP installation.
Just import the recipe, customize options, burn to SDCARD, insert into Pi and boot for an instant Flarum dev box.

PiBakery is worth checking out:
http://www.pibakery.org/

I will be updating this thread with my notes and results.

0E800

Update:

Got this working on Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Granted the performance is much better on the rpi3. Makes for a easy portable Flarum Dropbox and portable development box.

I'll update again with pics and instructions.

0E800

Instructions for cookie cutter Raspberry Pi Flarum development drop box

Purpose:
A cookie cutter template portable Flarum development platform / drop-box guerrilla forum.

Benefit:
No coding or cli needed instant Flarum installation and portable.

Required hardware:
♦ Raspberry Pi 3 or Raspberry Pi Zero W (raspberry devices that include wifi chipsets)
♦ 4GB+ microsd card. (the bigger and faster the better)

Software required:
♦ PiBakery . (Windows/macOS/Linux)
♦ My custom PiBakery blocks.

Steps:

♦ Download PiBakery:
http://www.pibakery.org/download.html

♦ Download custom blocks for installing Flarum:
https://github.com/0E800/pibakery-blocks/blob/master/FlarumBlocks.zip

Install PiBakery (when given option, just install Stretch Lite, no desktop needed)
Extract FlarumBlocks.zip to Desktop
Open PiBakery
Drag & Drop the folders: disablescreensleep, lempinstall, flarumbeta onto the PiBakery workspace.

Note:
To permanently enable the blocks, copy/move folders to:

On macOS:
Applications / PiBakery (right click -> show package contents)
/Resources/app/pibakery-blocks/

On Windows:
C:\Program Files (x86)\PiBakery\resources\app\pibakery-blocks

PiBakery workspace should look like this:

Insert microsd card into computer and click on write.
When completed, insert microsd card into Raspberry Pi and power on the device.
It takes a long time for it to complete the install, its best to connect a HDMI monitor to track progress.
After the device reboots, enter the IP address of the PI into your browser to complete the Flarum installation.

Notes:
- It doesn't take too long to write the sdcard
- It takes a long time for the Raspberry Pi to complete the installation
- It takes a long time waiting for Flarum to install when web installer is run.

To be completed:
- Create block for email notification of install completion
- Create blocks for individual extensions
- Flarum with PirateBox for private network (https://piratebox.cc/raspberry_pi:diy)

Credits:
Most of this work was done using @webeindustry 's Monkey Flarum Install Script as a guide.

Modifications were made in order to be PiBakery/Raspbian compatible.

0E800

Currently experimenting with Piratebox [https://piratebox.cc] which is a DIY anonymous offline file-sharing and communications system. (personal network)

Using some of the configurations I will attempt to create a cookie cutter PiBakery recipe that will turn a Pi into a No-Internet Flarum wifi access point. Login into the wifi access point and it pulls up Flarum.

Great for portable / offline communications.