Volume 2

🧑‍✈️Cockpit

Web-based graphical interface for Linux

What is Cockpit?

It is a web-based graphical interface for Linux machines. It simplifies management, and allows CLI access to the WLAN Pi without requiring an SSH client.

How to access Cockit?

  1. Go to http://<IP-address-of-your-WLAN-Pi> and click on ADMIN.

    If you get a connection failure try using a different browser.

    We do not have an SSL cert in place yet, please continue past the security warning

  2. Login using the default 'first time boot' credentials username: wlanpi password: wlanpi

  3. You will be prompted to change your password this is NOT optional. YOU MUST do this to proceed.

  4. The first time you login to Cockpit you will be in limited access mode. Look to the top-right corner of the WebUI interface. Click on limited access enter password, to get full access to WLAN Pi

  5. Now please have a poke around, explore what functionality is exposed by Cockpit GUI.

Terminal

The menu option at the bottom of the left side panel is Terminal.

For the duration of the Cookbook this web based terminal is going to be our default method for accessing the WLAN Pi terminal.

Does our WLAN Pi have internet connection?

Execute command reachability in the Terminal window within Cockpit.

Does it?

When is re-imaging of the SD card required?

System level updates will be made occasionally that may require re-imaging your microSD card.

If you choose to re-image your SD card with the latest release of WLAN Pi OS, this will come with the latest version of all the default packages. To update packages to their latest versions, you can use CLI command sudo wlanpi-update. Or you can navigate to the Software Updates section in Cockpit.

Configure correct time zone

If you have not already done so (via FPMS) you can configure / double check the timezone from Cockpit.

Open Overview and click on System time 'Sep 19, 2022 5:46 PM' - highlighted in green below. You can figure out the rest 😉

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