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Helix edited this page Aug 23, 2020 · 4 revisions

Installation of the Alias wallet on Raspberry Pi

  • Download latest Raspi image from Alias release area.
  • Use a tool like Etcher to flash the image to an SD card
  • Put SD card into your RaspberryPi and boot it up
  • Login to your Raspi using ssh and a tool like PuTTY or MobaXTerm
    • Username: pi
    • Password: raspberry
  • Start UI by typing ui. This might take a while on the first run because the daemon is synchronizing the blockchain.

Useful cmdline commands:

wallet-status     # Show if wallet is running or not
wallet-stop       # Stop wallet
wallet-start      # Start wallet
ui                # Start Shell-UI

Important: Stop the daemon before powering down your Raspberry Pi! Otherwise you might end up with a corrupted blockchain which must be resynchronized.

Replace wallet.dat with different one

You can easily replace the wallet.dat file on the Raspberry Pi with another one. A common usecase i. e. is, if you created a wallet using seed words and want to stake on this wallet. To do so, you need to perform the following steps:

Determine the IP of your Raspberry Pi

If you not already know the IP of your Raspi, you need to login on your Internet router and check the list of connected devices. Find the Raspi there and note it's IP address.

Stop wallet on the Raspi

Login on the Raspi using ssh and issue the cmd wallet-stop. You can check with wallet-status, if the wallet is really stopped.

Mouse user? WinSCP!

If you're on Windows, you could use a tool like WinSCP for easy access and modification of you Raspi.

Install the tool with default settings or tweak them if you like. After this is done, create a new session using the noted Raspi IP from the previous step and username pi:

WinSCP new connection

If you connect now, you will see the content of pi's home directory probably like this:

No hidden files visible

If you can't see the folder .aliaswallet, you need to enable visibility of hidden files. To do so, go to Options > Preferences, there to Panels and activate option Show hidden files:

No hidden files visible

After that, you should see the hidden folder .aliaswallet:

No hidden files visible

Replace wallet.dat

To replace the current wallet.dat file with a different one, open the folder /home/pi/.aliaswallet/ on the right WinSCP panel.

Open the location of the wallet.dat file you want to use on the left WinSCP panel. If you want to use the file from an existing Alias installation, the location is C:\Users\<your-username>\AppData\Roaming\Aliaswallet\

Before copying over from the left panel (local machine) to the right panel (your Raspi), make sure that both wallet's are really stopped!

Select wallet.dat on the left panel, drag it with the Mouse to the right panel and release it there. Now hit OK to copy it to the remote machine.

No hidden files visible

You might get a warning because there is already a wallet.dat file existing on the remote side. If you're setup a new Raspi, you can overwrite the existing file. Otherwise you should double check if it is ok to overwrite or not.

Backup wallet.dat

To create a backup of wallet.dat, you can perform the same steps as written above but instead of selecting wallet.dat on the left panel, select the one on the right panel and drag it to the left panel. So the copy step will copy from the remote machine (your Raspi) to the local machine.

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