March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
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English
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Raspberry Pi node setup
On Raspberry Pi, the following command is required to be run to start geth and to sync it with other nodes (in this case only one node). The following is the command:
$ ./geth --networkid 786 --maxpeers 5 --rpc --rpcapi web3,eth,debug,personal,net --rpccorsdomain "*" --port 30302 --identity "raspberry"
This should produce the output similar to the one shown in the following screenshot. When the output contains the row displaying Block synchronisation started it means that the node has connected successfully to its peer.
geth on the Raspberry Pi.
This can be further verified by running commands in the geth console on ...