What is the Hello Anthias test?

Anthias
1

The only spare RPi for my Anthias eval is:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) aarch64
Host: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5

I used RPi Imager for the Anthias (pi4) image. I got “Screen Saver?” utility working on the display screen but didn’t understand on how to customize the settings. So I went for the full Bookworm image and used the shell script for a fresh install of Anthias. After rebooting, I have SSH access but the display screen no longer has any Anthias screen.

How do I explore Anthias functionality, features, etc? Thanks.

Regards.

2

Hi @baqwas ,

Can you try to run “upgrade_containers.sh” from /home/$USER/screenly/bin/upgrade_containers.sh to complete the installation and see if it’s showing Anthia’s logo on the screen?

3

Very strange. There is nothing under /home/admin/screenly where admin is the user account. The only folder under /home is admin. Did a search for files/folders having the string screenly and it turned up only /home/admin/screenly.

I really don’t know what is going on because the previous bash installation script did not display any error messages. I can start from scratch (re-image microSD card with RPi imager for RPi4 approved OS - Bookworm 64-bit) and then run the bash installation script. Do you recommend this approach or would you prefer that I choose the Bookworm Lite OS 32-bit from RPi Imager? I’ll just follow your further instructions if you don’t mind. I understand that there is no need for 64-bit OS with Anthias but I just wanted to try it out anyway. Thanks.

Regards.

4

Hi @baqwas, The 64-bit OS will work fine, can you try with the 64-bit lite version and see if there are any errors?

Also, can you confirm if there is any error on CLI while installing the script?

5

Hi Baqwas,
I had this same issue, to resolve it I used this image:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjj856N-u2CAxUdgf0HHfzjDMYQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdownloads.raspberrypi.org%2Fraspios_arm64%2Fimages%2Fraspios_arm64-2022-09-26%2F2022-09-22-raspios-bullseye-arm64.img.xz&usg=AOvVaw1fUJUp2kldRmwLcOEfm5La&opi=89978449
I believe this has something to do with Python on the latest RPi OSs.
Let me know if this gets you anywhere!

6

Followed your advice and applied the bash installation script on RPi4 that had a fresh installation of RPi Bookworm 64-bit Lite OS.

No error message appeared on the console during the installation. I did request the upgrade and rebooted appropriately. I can SSH to the installation. Furthermore, I do have keyboard/mouse/display connected directly. The display (after reboot) stops at the console login prompt.

Could you please direct me to some tutorial(s) that I should read and practice without bothering others with newbie questions? Thanks.

Regards.

7

Thanks, @jpr. I’ll look into this shortly.

Regards.

8

Working on your suggestion right now! Thanks again.

Regards.

9

Nope, Bullseye (your image link) didn’t work either. Did request full upgrade and reboot.

Two points that I noticed:

  • The script wanted a response for “manage network” by Anthias server. I’ve tried both options (even though personally I wouldn’t want Anthias server to manage the network) just to get started.

  • References to ansible. Not that the Anthias server would mess up my existing Ansible environment.

Any further suggestions? Thanks.

Regards.

10

Hello @salmanfarisvp,

I seem to have issues with the bash installation script (that I overlooked in my initial inquiry owing to my haste). I see some of these messages when running:

$ bash <(curl -sL https://install-anthias.srly.io)

Here are some extracts that lead me to believe that the installation script is not working for me on RPi4 with RPi OS (Bookworm) 64-bit Desktop and Lite as well as Bullseye 64-bit:

+ sudo pip install cryptography==38.0.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: module 'lib' has no attribute 'X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK'
+ sudo pip install ansible-core==2.12
Traceback (most recent call last):

It seems nothing was installed! The screenly subfolder has nothing under it!!

I understand that you are busy but perhaps you could spare a few lines to set me in the right direction. Thanks.

Regards.

11

Hi @baqwas I tried to reproduce the error and looks like there is an issue when selecting the Network manager and system full-upgrade. So could you please select NO for the System upgrade and Network manager and let me know?

12

OK.

I can continue to SSH as before but cannot HTTP from remote client (as before).

Here is the iteration based on your last recommendation (apologies for the long list but I didn’t know what was the best set of snippets that I could send):

Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) (via RPi Imager 2023-12-05 image)
6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5

please select NO for the System upgrade and Network manager and let me know?

Confirming as affirmative.

Partial console output 1:

All packages are up to date.

+ sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git libffi-dev libssl-dev python3 python3-dev python3-pip whois

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

git is already the newest version (1:2.30.2-1+deb11u2).

python3 is already the newest version (3.9.2-3).

python3 set to manually installed.

python3-dev is already the newest version (3.9.2-3).

python3-dev set to manually installed.

python3-pip is already the newest version (20.3.4-4+rpt1+deb11u1).

The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:

libfuse2

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.

Suggested packages:

libssl-doc

The following NEW packages will be installed:

libffi-dev libssl-dev whois

0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Partial console output 2:

Attempting uninstall: cryptography
    Found existing installation: cryptography 3.3.2
    Not uninstalling cryptography at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
    Can't uninstall 'cryptography'. No files were found to uninstall.
Successfully installed cffi-1.16.0 cryptography-38.0.2 pycparser-2.21

Partial console output 3 (some overlap with 2):

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting cryptography==38.0.2
  Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/cryptography/cryptography-38.0.2-cp39-cp39-linux_armv7l.whl (2.5 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 2.5 MB 229 kB/s 
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))': /simple/cffi/
Collecting cffi>=1.12
  Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/cffi/cffi-1.16.0-cp39-cp39-linux_armv7l.whl (367 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 367 kB 228 kB/s 
Collecting pycparser
  Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/pycparser/pycparser-2.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl (119 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 119 kB 10.5 MB/s 
WARNING: The candidate selected for download or install is a yanked version: 'cryptography' candidate (version 38.0.2 at https://www.piwheels.org/simple/cryptography/cryptography-38.0.2-cp39-cp39-linux_armv7l.whl#sha256=07f8ddebc9d0cbd159c1b6bada223389b1dcab9b10fa9f01178e7309224b6f5f (from https://www.piwheels.org/simple/cryptography/) (requires-python:>=3.6))
Reason for being yanked: <none given>
Installing collected packages: pycparser, cffi, cryptography
  Attempting uninstall: cryptography
    Found existing installation: cryptography 3.3.2
    Not uninstalling cryptography at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
    Can't uninstall 'cryptography'. No files were found to uninstall.
Successfully installed cffi-1.16.0 cryptography-38.0.2 pycparser-2.21
+ sudo pip install ansible-core==2.12
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('pip==20.3.4', 'console_scripts', 'pip')())
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 77, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 7, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 23, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.packaging.utils import canonicalize_name
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/__init__.py", line 94, in <module>
    vendored("requests.packages.urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl")
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/__init__.py", line 36, in vendored
    __import__(modulename, globals(), locals(), level=0)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 664, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
  File "/usr/share/python-wheels/urllib3-1.26.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 50, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from OpenSSL import crypto, SSL
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/OpenSSL/crypto.py", line 1556, in <module>
    class X509StoreFlags(object):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/OpenSSL/crypto.py", line 1577, in X509StoreFlags
    CB_ISSUER_CHECK = _lib.X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK
AttributeError: module 'lib' has no attribute 'X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK'
+ sudo -u chowkidar ansible localhost -m git -a 'repo=https://github.com/screenly/anthias.git dest=/home/chowkidar/screenly version=master force=no'
sudo: ansible: command not found
+ cd /home/chowkidar/screenly/ansible
/dev/fd/63: line 190: cd: /home/chowkidar/screenly/ansible: No such file or directory
+ sudo -E -u chowkidar ansible-playbook site.yml --skip-tags system-upgrade
sudo: ansible-playbook: command not found
+ sudo -u chowkidar /home/chowkidar/screenly/bin/upgrade_containers.sh
sudo: /home/chowkidar/screenly/bin/upgrade_containers.sh: command not found
+ sudo apt-get autoclean

Key observations:

  • More packages installed with tell-tale Debian text progress bar as feedback
  • Screenly folder under /home/user is empty (as previously)
  • SSH access persists but still no HTTP access from remote

Thanks for all your guidance and assistance. Apologies if you feel that I have posted redundantly.

FWIW, the Anthias (pi4) image via RPi Imager does not enable SSH (my experience) or customize credentials (that I always do once RPi Imager was upgraded). There is no DHCP lease in the LAN for raspberrypi.local or raspberrypi. and the attached HDMI display has no signal.

I am simply seeking very, very elementary startup assistance - purely for self-paced learning. Thanks again for your understanding.

Regards.

13

New Bookworm support is ongoing and you can find the PR here https://github.com/Screenly/Anthias/pull/1836.

I see the Image from the RPi image is too old and it’s using the old Anthias on top of the Balena OS so no SSH option is available.

I will investigate further and update, I checked the same setup with RPI 3B and it is working fine for me, I will try with 4B and update.

Thank you for your detailed comment and assistance.