PIR Sensor on the Pi

By K4Paul 3 Hardware, Kali, Linux, Python , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Today I soldered a PIR sensor to my Pi! Basically, I want it to detect movement and turn on a LCD screen, then turn the screen off again after a minute of no movement. So when I walk into a room, the screen turns on and when I leave, the screen turns off.

Equipment

Solder

First thing, I looked up the pinout for the Raspberry Pi. The below diagram comes from elinux.org.

We care about one of the 5V, ground and GPIO25 pins.

  • Solder the sensor red cable to either 5V.
  • Solder the black cable to ground.
  • End by soldering the yellow line to GPIO25.

Your results should be similar to my picture below.

back

Next, I used this guy’s pir.py script. The script requires the Python library RPi.GPIO. I installed this by downloading the library from here, the direct link is here. To untag or unzip the file I used the following command:

tar -xvf RPi.GPIO-0.5.4.tar.gz

Before installing it, make sure you have python-dev installed.

apt-get install python-dev

With that necessary package, install RPi.GPIO.

cd RPi.GPIO-0.5.4
python setup.py install

Now you can run the pir.py script. I made some slight changes to his code. I didn’t feel the need to call separate scripts to run a single command so I made the following edits.

import subprocess

to

import os

and

def turn_on(): 
    subprocess.call("sh /home/pi/photoframe/monitor_on.sh", shell=True)
def turn_off(): 
    subprocess.call("sh /home/pi/photoframe/monitor_off.sh", shell=True)

this

def turn_on(): 
    os.system("chvt 2")
def turn_off(): 
    os.system("chvt 2")

Run the script and test it out! The sensor will turn off after a minute of no movement and on again once it detects something. I ended by setting my script to run on startup.

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I need to put a picture in the frame to act as background to the pi…

OpenVas for Kali Linux on the Raspberry Pi

By K4Paul 7 Kali, Vulnerability Scanner , , , ,

I’m working on creating a semi-portable security platform. I decided to experiment with installing and using the armel version of Kali Linux (the new backtrack OS) on the raspberry pi. Initially, I faced a lot of problems getting OpenVAS to work on the device. This is one of the very few if only open source armel vulnerability scanners I could find. The following steps cover my successful attempt to setting up OpenVAS for anyone else interested in working with this tool in Kali on a Pi. Be prepared to spend a good amount of time waiting for the plugins to install and the database to update.

  1. Downloaded and installed a fresh armel image of Kali (http://www.kali.org/downloads/). I used this image (Username: root, password: toor).
  2. Use a disk imager to image a SD card with the Kali image to run on the Pi. I used Win32 Disk Imager.
  3. Insert the SD card into the pi and power it up.
  4. You may want to expand the partition created by the disk imager, a tutorial on how to expand an active partition can be found here.
  5. Set the correct date if needed: 
    date <month><day><hour><minute><year>.<second>
  6. Create the openVAS certificate: 
    openvas-mkcert
  7. Create the openVAS client certificate: 
    openvas-mkcert-client -n om -i
  8. Download the openVAS NVT’s (This takes a few minutes): 
    openvas-nvt-sync
  9. Start the openVAS scanner (This takes 30+ minutes.): 
    openvassd
  10. Build the openVAS database (This can take an hour or more.): 
    openvasmd --rebuild
  11. Create an admin account: 
    openvasad -c 'add_user' -n openvasadmin -r Admin
  12. Update the  openVAS database with the latest definition (This can take an hour or more.): 
    openvasmd --update
  13. Migrate the database (This can take an hour or more.): 
    openvasmd --migrate
  14. Rebuild one last time to be safe (This can take an hour or more.): 
    openvasmd --rebuild
  15. Start the openVAS manager on port 9390: 
    openvasmd -p 9390 -a 127.0.0.1
  16. Start the openVAS admin: 
    openvasad -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9393
  17. Start GSAD, this is the client tool for openVAS: 
    gsad --http-only -p 9392
  18.  Use the web client to interact with the tool, it can be accessed on http://<IP OF PI>:9392. You can log in with the admin account created earlier.

Capture

That’s it! Now you can use this amazing tool to scan machines in a network!

After a reboot or shutdown, openVAS can be started with the commands:

  1. Start the openVAS scanner (This takes a few minutes this time.): openvassd
  2. Start the openVAS manager on port 9390: openvasmd -p 9390 -a 127.0.0.1
  3. Start the openVAS admin: openvasad -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9393
  4. Start GSAD on port 9392, this is the client tool for openVAS: gsad –http-only -p 9392