[Feature]: A guided UI when you first visit localhost:8080 with Preloaded PiTrac Image

[jeshernandez]

Feature Area

Pre-requirements:

• Somewhat "working" release. I believe we are there now. If user breaks it, they could always simply re-image with this image version.
• pitrac_lm would also have to be a package that can be easily updated via apt manager. Users not diving into code would simply apt get update/upgrade

(pre-req 32GB USB Drive) Users have to do this anyways. Instead of using blank Trixie, they'll be installing PiTrac Trixie Image.
Creating an img with pre-installed/slightly configured pitrac/pitrac-ui. Will upload to Google Drive/AWS S3.
1. User opens browser preset home page localhost:8080 to start guided installation, configuration, calibration process.
2. Done.

Post-MVP - A guided UI when you first visit localhost:8080 user will see an installation/pre-validation guided path. If validations of hardware pass, installation starts, then calibration, etc. Then normal UI that we see today will be the normal page. No need for git cloning, build.sh dev, etc.

Proposed Solution

Creating the image.

1. Custom guided UI TBD
2. Creating image is straightforward, using compressed image would be ideal gzip -dc rpios_custom.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=16M status=progress conv=fsync. Validation needed to find out uncompressed size. Uncompressed installation is easier.

Once user boots into custom USB image.

1. lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT (identify disks)
2. sudo wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1 sudo sgdisk --zap-all /dev/nvme0n1 Make sure drive is wiped out.
3. sudo dd if=rpios_custom.img of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=16M status=progress conv=fsync Install.
4. lsblk verify partition table.
5. Remove usb disk, reboot.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority/Impact

Minimal - Nice to Have

User Type

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Estimated Complexity

None

Use Cases

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Simulator Compatibility

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Technical Details

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New Data Requirements

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Hardware Requirements

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UI/UX Mockups

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Success Criteria

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Contribution Interest

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References

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Discord Contact

Yes, I'm active on the PiTrac Discord

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[connorgallopo]

We are certainly close - The tooling for building the apt package is already in place as well.

The alternative solution I would propose would just be a PiTrac ISO - Which we also have already. Would allow them to go through a typical RPI installer process, and have everything already in place (with the option to configure wifi, ssh keys etc from the imager.

I think we also ruled out the explicit need for an NVME as it provided no LM performance gains after we got rid of things like Tomee. So those steps could be provided but also ignored if people wanted a simpler route.

So it just comes down to squashing the last bugs as there are still some things proposed as "workarounds" as well as some new bugs that were discovered today. Both of which should be avoided in a release.