Which configuation of RaspPi is the preferred, and a WiFi question

I've read and searched the forum so far, but no answer, so my apology if there is some answer buried here and I didn't find it.


I have set up to let my Windows 7 laptop feed data to FR24 right now. I ordered and my RaspPi2B has arrive. It came with an SD card to boot. I also read in the home pages for FR24 that one can get a bootable image, already configured, to flash to a blank SD card and boot RPi using that.

Is there a best way to do this? Use the image FR has configured, or take a system and do the get to download the necessary pieces and run from there?

Second, I did get a small USB plug to allow the RaspPi to use WiFi to connect to my router, rather than using a Cat5 cable to plug in. It would be so much better if I can use the WiFi for convenience in positioning the unit closer to my antenna, but can do some running of cable if there is no way to enable WiFi and run FR24 at the same time.

I would suggest that the 'cleanest' way to do the RaspPi config would be to download the SD image that FR provides, and run that. If that is the case, can one do steps to 'activate' the WiFi USB chip to allow it to connect to the router and send data that way?

Thank you. Dale
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