Anthias v2026.6.3 - Installation stops halfway on PI3 B+

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Hi, i tried to test new Anthias release on our Raspberry PI 3 B+ with Trixie and with Bookworm but Installation stops halfway everytime.

This is the cli log:

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Run the Anthias Ansible Playbook

Note: Ansible may prompt for your sudo password below.

BECOME password:

PLAY [Install Anthias] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Validate required environment variables] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************
[ERROR]: Task failed: Action failed: Required environment variables missing or invalid. USER must be set; DEVICE_TYPE must be one of pi2, pi3, pi4-64, pi5, x86, arm64.
Origin: /home/pi/anthias/ansible/site.yml:13:7

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12 pre_tasks:
13 - name: Validate required environment variables
^ column 7

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
“assertion”: “device_type in [‘pi2’, ‘pi3’, ‘pi4-64’, ‘pi5’, ‘x86’, ‘arm64’]”,
“changed”: false,
“evaluated_to”: false,
“msg”: “Required environment variables missing or invalid. USER must be set; DEVICE_TYPE must be one of pi2, pi3, pi4-64, pi5, x86, arm64.”
}

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

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Hi caimano,

Thanks for the detailed report. You found a real bug. When a Pi 3 runs a 64-bit OS, the installer correctly tags it as pi3-64, but the install playbook was not updated to accept that name, so it stopped
right at the start with the “DEVICE_TYPE must be one of…” message you saw.

We have a fix in fix(install): accept pi3-64 in Ansible playbook validation by vpetersson · Pull Request #3067 · Screenly/Anthias · GitHub . Once it is merged it will go out in the next release, and the install on a 64-bit Pi 3 will run through to the end.

In the meantime, if you want to get going right away, you can either reflash with the 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS (the Pi 3 runs fine on that), or run the installer with the device type set by hand:

DEVICE_TYPE=pi3-64 ./bin/install.sh

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Thanks, okay, tomorrow I’ll try to test everything using these two tips while I wait for the new release. But I wanted to ask you: does the 32-bit version also work on the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB?

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I think all Pi 4 images are 64 bit.