Thank you for the info!  I know there isn't much reward at the moment for staking, so right now this is more of a learning experience more than anything else.
Having a guide (eg. raspberri pi staking guide) will make it easier for everyone else as well to get into staking... Is an static IP required?  Or can I wing it with my regular whatever-the-isp-gives-me?

I'll try setting something up and, if I can get it to work, make a guide for others as well.

For us newbs to the actual coding a coin world, do you have a guide for a testnet of sorts? (can't say I have a lot of time to tinker, but it'd be fun to actually contribute to the code base at some point)