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• On Raspbian, you don't need to install the 8192cu driver manually, as it comes with the distribution


• To avoid disconnection issues, you need however to disable power management. This needs to be done in two places. First, this is what I have in /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf:

  options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0



• This alone did not prevent the issue. I also had to add this entry to /etc/network/interfaces:

  auto wlan0
  allow-hotplug wlan0
  iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
  wireless-power off
  iface default inet dhcp

Sources: https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/issues/217, https://www.kuerbis.org/2016/03/raspberry-pi-3-kurztipps-wlan-sleep-mode-verhindern/

(it should work with any other Debian-based Raspberry Pi distribution and all newer Fitbit devices that use BLE)

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install python-pip
pip install galileo
galileo

You can then use cron or a simple shell script to periodically run galileo.

apt-get install vim
update-alternatives --config editor

I don't need a firewall on my Raspberry PI which runs XMBC (raspbmc distribution) - it's in a dedicated subnet behind a firewall. Furthermore, there are several reports of iptables having an impact on the performance of network playback, causing buffering issues (although I didn't do any benchmark myself).

I modified /etc/network/if-up.d/secure-rmc by adding "exit 0" right at the beginning like this:

#!/bin/bash

exit 0

dec_to_bin() {
...

And then I ran:

apt-get remove iptables

This was followed by a reboot.

nb: the secure-rmc file appears to be a raspbmc addition, and it could probably just be deleted instead.