PiFireOS

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• PiFireOS
  • Where to get it?
  • How to use it?
  • Features
  • Developing
  • Get help

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ℹ️ You can find the PiFire documentation here

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A Raspberry Pi distribution for Pi based pellet smoker controllers. It includes the PiFire software for managing and monitoring multiple Octoprint instances out of the box.

This repository contains the source script to generate the distribution out of an existing Raspberry Pi OS image.

Where to get it?

Download the latest stable build (typically running latest stable PiFire):

Download the latest nightly builds (latest image always runs newest code from PiFire development branch):

How to use it?

• Flash the image to an sd card using Balena Etcher or Raspberry Pi Imager
• Configure your WiFi by editing pifireos-wpa-supplicant.txt on the root of the SD card. You may need to eject and reinsert the card.
• Boot the Pi from the card
• Connect via web browser to http://pifireos.local (if your computer supports bonjour) or http://pifireos (if your network properly has internal dns).
  • Alternatively you may need to use a tool like Angry IP Scanner or Advanced IP Scanner to find the IP address.
• Configure your smoker settings.
• OPTIONALLY:
  • Log into your Pi via SSH (it is located at pifireos.local if your computer supports bonjour or find the IP address assigned by your router), default username is "pi", default password is "raspberry".
  • Change the password; run: passwd
  • Change the configured timezone; run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
  • Change the hostname; run: echo myhostname | sudo tee /etc/hostname
    • Your PiFireOS instance will then no longer be reachable under pifireos.local but rather the hostname you chose postfixed with .local, so keep that in mind.
  • If WiFi is not available, a "PiFire-Hotspot" network will be started.
    • Default password is "raspberry"
    • Connect any compatible device and connect to 192.168.50.1 to control your smoker.

ℹ️ Supervisor is configured by default. Access at: http://pifireos.local:9001 with username "pifire" and password "PiFire".

Features

• PiFire software for managing and controlling pellet smokers
• Supervisor software for managing gui and control processes
• hostapd software for managing automatic hotspot

Developing

Code contribution would be appreciated!

Get Help

Discord

The PiFire Discord server has an #os-images channel. This is likely the best place for support for this image.

Issue Tracker

PLEASE limit this to issues with the image, not to issues with PiFire itself.