This explanation of the process for setting up a Red Pitaya STEMLab 122.8-16 (the latest variant) as an RBN receiver was written by RBN co-founder and server programmer Felipe Ceglia, PY1NB . 
1 - Prepare the microSD card with Pavel Demin's Linux image
  • Use Windows Disk Manager (diskmgmt.msc) to delete all the partitions on the microSD card, then create a new partition and format it as FAT32 (FAT won't work).
     
  • Download Pavel Demin's Alpine Linux image in zip format from https://github.com/pavel-demin/stemlab-sdr-notes/releases
     
  • Unzip the above zip file  and copy its content to the microSD card.
     
  • Copy the start.sh file from the zip file's folder "apps\sdr_receiver_hpsdr" to the microSD card's root directory.
     
  • Insert the SD card in STEMlab and connect the power.

    More information at: https://pavel-demin.github.io/stemlab-sdr-notes/alpine

    If everything is ok, you will have the blue and green leds lit all the time and the yellow led blinking for a while until it gets an IP address from the DHCP server. At this point you must check on your router which IP address was assigned to the SDR and try to ping it and/or access it on your web browser.

    Note: the SDR_Receiver_HPSDR start.sh script starts *two* (2) independent 8-slice SDRs, and the board will end up with two IP addresses and two MAC addresses on your LAN. So you can start two independent versions of Skimmer Server, each referencing a different MAC address by renaming the HermesIntf.dll as described. You can control which bands will get which antenna ports on the Red Pitaya - tqwo are provided
     
2 - Running CW Skimmer Server
  • Copy HermesIntf.dll to the CW Skimmer Server program directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Afreet\SkimSrv).
  • In the SkimSrv directory, rename HermesIntf.dll to HermestIntf_XXXX.dll where XXXX are the last four digits of the MAC address of the STEMlab (you can find it on the sticker on the RJ45 ethernet port).
  • Make a copy of the SkimSrv directory and rename the copy to SkimSrv2.
  • In the SkimSrv2 directory, rename SkimSrv.exe to SkimSrv2.exe and rename HermestIntf_XXXX.dll to HermestIntf_FFXX.dll, where XX are the last two digits of the MAC address
  • Start SkimSrv.exe and SkimSrv2.exe, configure frequencies and your call sign.
  • Start Reverse Beacon Network Aggregator.

     
Thanks to Pavel Demin, N4ZR, N6TV