Home automation raspberry PI setup

homeAutomationBackend.conf

#!upstart
# put in /etc/init/homeAutomationBackend.conf
description "Home Automation Backend Server"
author      "Ben Ripkens"

start on startup
stop on shutdown
respawn

script
    export HOME="/root"

    echo $$ > /var/run/home-automation-backend.pid
    exec  /usr/local/bin/node /opt/home-automation/backend >> /var/log/home-automation-backend.sys.log 2>&1
end script

pre-start script
    echo "Pulling latest version from repository" >> /var/log/home-automation-backend.sys.log
    git --git-dir /opt/home-automation/backend/.git --work-tree /opt/home-automation/backend pull origin master >> /var/log/home-automation-backend.sys.log 2>&1
    # Date format same as (new Date()).toISOString() for consistency
    echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Starting" >> /var/log/home-automation-backend.sys.log
end script

pre-stop script
    rm /var/run/yourprogram.pid
    echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Stopping" >> /var/log/home-automation-backend.sys.log
end script

setup.bash

# partially based on
# https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2013/03/home-automation-with-angularjs-and-node-js-on-a-raspberry-pi/

# configure raspberry pi:
sudo raspi-config

# passwordless SSH:
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh pi@raspberrypi "mkdir ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

# upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade

# reboot
sudo reboot

# install stuff
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential openssl libssl-dev pkg-config curl nginx tmux vim git-core upstart

# change keyboard
sudo vi /etc/default/keyboard
# change gb => de

# enter tmux session to be able to detach
tmux

# install node.js
# see http://shapeshed.com/compiling-nodejs-from-source-on-ubuntu-10-04/
cd /usr/local/src
sudo mkdir node
cd node
sudo wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.36/node-v0.10.36.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzf node-v0.10.36.tar.gz 
cd node-v0.10.36
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

# to make a backup
sudo dd bs=1m if=/dev/disk2 of=~/image-`date +%y-%m-%d`.img

# or compressed
# make backup
sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sdb | gzip > /home/your_username/image`date +%d%m%y`.gz

# apply backup
sudo gzip -dc /home/your_username/image.gz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdb