Installation issues, Pi 1 Model B

Anthias
1

New to this forum and community.
Im having an old Raspberry Pi Model B laying around and im searching and reseraching on Digital Signage alternatives to what we are using currently at our company at customers.

So, i found Screenly that seems to have features that might suite us.
But, i wanted to lab and play with this Anthias version on a single screen just to try it out before i try Screenly and pay money. Maybe there is a try function before buy?

Ive recently bought a Pi 5 8Gb with a PoE+ hat that are compatibile with the official pi 5 case.
I know these pies get hot but at least i will try and see if i need to change setup.

Would be nice to install a PoE powered pi behind a screen at some customers.
Mostly using Samsung or NEC professional screens.

So, ive tried all kinds of methods but everything seems to fail or at least im stuck and cant proceed.

Tried with Raspberry Pi imager version 1.9.0, flashed my 8gb SD card with Raspberry Pi Lite bookworm and also bullseye.

Tried with the cloud balena rpi1 image.
Tried manual custom installation with Raspberry Pi Lite bullseye and with the curl script. Choosing latest version in the installation menu.

The last one installs but fails at the step doing docker upgrade.

"PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=81 changed=43 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=12 rescued=0 ignored=0

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ┃
┃ Initialize/Upgrade Docker Containers ┃
┃ ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

/home/anton/screenly/bin/upgrade_containers.sh: line 59: 8687 Illegal instruction sudo -E docker compose -f /home/${USER}/s creenly/docker-compose.yml pull"

What to do?
My DHCP server leases an ip on all methods ive tried and i can ping that ip but not accessing it with ssh or to its webserver.

Ive seen several screens showing at my tv connected to the pi with hdmi.
Ive seen just a grey screen for a couple of hours, ive seen a grey screen that became blue, ive seen a purple screen with a Screenly logo in the middle with no other info, ive seen a Balena logo…

But nothing else.

2

@Orfeous, it looks like the images are not being pulled successfully. Let me take a closer look at that one.

1 Like
3

Thank you!
I will happily provide logs if you prefer that?
If you do, please precise which ones.

4

@Orfeous, there are two ways that you can replicate the issue and retrieve the los:

  1. Start the installation from scratch and don’t forget to capture the console output from start to finish.
  2. Run the following to try to pull the Docker images:
cd ~/screenly
./bin/upgrade_containers.sh
1 Like
5

So, use raspberry pi imager and flash Raspberry Pi Lite Bullseye or Bookworm.
Then after logging in via SSH i start the installation with the curl script.
Let the script installation do its thing. Then select every line, copy and paste here?
Or are there a command that outputs a file when running the curl script that i can attach?

Or what are the recommended procedure for me with my old Raspberry Pi 1 Model B?

6

@Orfeous, Anthias is not operational on Pi 1 devices at the moment.
You can install Anthias on Pi 2, Pi 3, or Pi 4 devices, if you have one.
If you happen to have an old 64-bit x86 computer, you can install Debian 12 (Bookworm) and install Anthias. (The same command is used for the installation.)

I haven’t tested if Anthias works on the BalenaOS version. You can try it on Pi 1. You can install it via the Raspberry Pi Imager. More details can be found here.

1 Like