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Important Note!
Make sure you fit the base station the right way around and and perfectly aligned with pins 1-26 of the Raspberry Pi. You could damage the base station if fitted incorrectly.
1. Power off the Raspberry Pi
2. Carefully align the header as shown in Figure 1 and push the base station all the way down onto the Raspberry Pi GPIO header.
 Figure - 1 Align Base station with Raspberry Pi Header
3. In order to remove the base station from the raspberry Pi power off the Raspberry Pi and then hold the Raspberry Pi firmly with one hand and gently wiggle the base station loose with your other hand. Wiggling it from side to side is easier than pulling it directly upwards.
The next few steps explain how to test the device
4. The base station receiver uses the Raspberry Pi serial port in order to communicate. Follow the instructions at this link to configure the Raspberry Pi serial port.
5. Now open up a Raspberry Pi terminal window
6. Create a directory where you want to store the RF configuration tool
eg:
sudo apt-get install python-serialcd ~mkdir rf_toolscd rf_tools7. Download the RF sensor configuration tool
sudo wget www.privateeyepi.com/downloads/rf_config.py
8. Send HELLO command to the Base Station
pi@raspberrypi:~/rf_tools $ python rf_config.py 01 HELLOsending : a01HELLOresponse is : a01HELLO----pi@raspberrypi:~/rd_tools $As shown above the rf_config.py tool sent the command a01HELLO and it received a response a01HELLO---. That means it is working.
If the tool was unable to communicate with the base station then you would see three failed attempts to send the HELLO command as shown here:
pi@raspberrypi:~/rf_tools $ python rf_config.py 01 HELLOsending : a01HELLOsending : a01HELLOsending : a01HELLOpi@raspberrypi:~/rf_tools $If you did no get the above response then retrace each of the above steps carefully.
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