@georgem - good morning. I don't know if you had a chance or not but I am ready to run the SPR node. I just need a little tutorial on getting it to operate under Raspian Jessie. I can get to the part of downloaded and decompressed from a tarball. However, I am lost on how to run it. Thanks - pokeytex (linux noob) 
Hey pokey,
here are a few very rudimentary instructions of what you have to do.
(more detailled tutorial will come at a later time).
So, you already have Raspian Jessie installed. Good.
You have downloaded the spreadcoin daemon and decompressed it. Ok
Now navigate into the folder with the daemon, so that you are in the same folder.
BTW, I suggest you use a nice SSH client like for example
Bitvise SSH Client (it gives you more possibilites than putty).
Once you are in the folder with the daemon, start it with this command:
./spreadcoind -daemon -serverIt will tell you that you need to first create a conf file. (Us starting the daemon once like this has created the necessary .spreadcoin folder in your home directory)
You can either create the conf file on your computer and upload it via the SFTP system of the SSH client (put the conf file into the .spreadcoin folder),
or you can create it directly in the terminal like this:
navigate to your home/.spreadcoin folder like this:
cd ~/.spreadcoincreate the conf file like this:
cat > spreadcoin.conf <<EOFthen just continue typing in the next lines as they appear:
rpcuser=<your rpc username>
rpcpassword=<your rpc password>
daemon=1
server=1
EOF
You typing EOF will close and save the spreadcoin file.
You can add more settings in your conf file according to your needs.
Now go back to your spreadcoind daemon folder, and try the
./spreadcoind -daemon -serveragain.
Now the daemon will start and sync, after a while you should be able to do access the daemon like that:
./spreadcoind getinfoor
./spreadcoind getpeerinfoetc...
So business as usual.
During the sync process the daemon will use 100% of all 4 Raspberry Pi 3 cores, so you might want to monitor its temperature like this:
/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_tempetc...
There are more things we can do, like move the spreadcoind daemon to the bin folder so that it can be accessed from everywhere,
also if for whatever reason you don't seem to have permission to access the daemon file, you might need to change its file permissions, like this:
sudo chmod 777 spreadcoindor
sudo chmod +x spreadcoindI hope this can also somehow help you, pokey.
Please give me your feedback and tell me how far you get.
BTW, it may easily take a few hours to sync if you start from scratch, so what you might want to do is copy the full blockchain data into your .spreadcoin folder via the SSH client to shorten the time.
We will also have to talk about routers and opening ports etc to allow your raspberry pi to have more connections etc...
