This repository uses Ansible to automate the creation of SD card images for PicoChessWeb based on the repository at https://github.com/gkalab/picochess and based on the DietPi distribution for Raspberry Pi.
Last DietPi version tested: DietPi v9.9.0 Bookworm (64-bit)
- Download the latest DietPi image for Raspberry Pi (ARMv7 32-bit image or ARMv8 64-bit image) from https://dietpi.com/.
- Flash the image to an SD-card (8GB minimum size).
- Replace the dietpi.txt on the FAT32 partition with the file from the config folder.
- Enter the SSID and wifi password in the file dietpi-wifi.txt in the same FAT32 partition.
Boot the Raspberry Pi with the SD-card, wait for the initial installation to complete (about 15 minutes). Upon completion you should see a running Chromium browser with a page load error.
Make sure you can connect to the Raspberry Pi via ssh as root (see root password in inventory.ini).
From an existing PicoChess installation:
- Copy the files from the talker directory into the ansible/files/talker/ folder of this repository.
- Copy engine binaries from an existing PicoChess installation to the files/engines/ directory. The files/engines/ directory will get copied to /opt/picochess/engines/ on the device. Make sure to include the correct engine binaries for your platform.
Some PicoChess options can only be set via the picochess.ini file. Adjust the settings in ansible/files/opt/picochess/picochess.ini for your system.
Download Komodo Dragon from https://komodochess.com/pub/dragon.zip and place the included dragon-linux binary in the directory ansible/files/extra_engines/dragon/ . Download the Komodo opening book from https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo_book.zip and place the included file komodo.bin in the same directory.
Download Pedone 3.0 from https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ImH_wz4b5FAvDJH_UTHfQkjk5Ijl0vv/view?usp=sharing and place the included Pedone_armv8 in the directory ansible/files/extra_engines/pedone/ .
pip3 install ansible
apt-get install sshpass rsync- Install requirements:
cd ansible; ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml - Make sure you can connect to your Raspberry Pi via ssh:
ssh root@<IP-address> - Replace with the IP address of your Raspberry Pi in the file inventory.ini
Run the playbook: ansible-playbook main.yml
You can run the playbook again if you update engine or audio files. The first run on a freshly installed system takes a little over 20 minutes using wifi.
After initial installation, to just update PicoChess you can enter ansible-playbook main.yml --tags picochess
Check the /boot/config.txt file for changes. I need to remove the line dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d to make audio work over HDMI on my system.