start-os/build

Building Embassy OS

⚠️ The commands given assume a Debian or Ubuntu-based environment. Building in a VM is NOT yet supported ⚠️

Prerequisites

1. Install dependencies

• Avahi
  • sudo apt install -y avahi-daemon
  • Installed by default on most Debian systems - https://avahi.org
• Docker
  • curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh
  • https://docs.docker.com/get-docker
  • Add your user to the docker group: sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER
  • Reload user environment exec sudo su -l $USER
• Prepare Docker environment
  • Setup buildx (https://docs.docker.com/buildx/working-with-buildx/)
  • Create a builder: docker buildx create --use
  • Add multi-arch build ability: docker run --rm --privileged linuxkit/binfmt:v0.8
• Node Version 12+
  • sudo snap install node
  • https://nodejs.org/en/docs
• NPM Version 7+
  • sudo apt install -y npm
  • https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm
• jq
  • sudo apt install -y jq
  • https://stedolan.github.io/jq

2. Clone the repo, move into it, and bring in required submodules

   git clone --recursive https://github.com/Start9Labs/embassy-os.git
   cd embassy-os
   git submodule update --init --recursive
   

Build

make

Flash

Flash the resulting eos.img to your SD Card (16GB required, any larger is neither necessary, nor advantageous)

We recommend Balena Etcher

Setup

Visit http://embassy.local from any web browser - We recommend Firefox

Enter your product key. This is generated during the build process and can be found in product_key.txt, located in the root directory.

Troubleshooting

1. I just flashed my SD card, fired up my Embassy, bootup sounds and all, but my browser is saying "Unable to connect" with embassy.local.

• Try doing a hard refresh on your browser, or opening the url in a private/incognito window. If you've ran an instance of Embassy before, sometimes you can have a stale cache that will block you from navigating to the page.

2. Flashing the image isn't working with balenaEtcher. I'm getting Cannot read property 'message' of null when I try.

• The latest versions of Balena may not flash properly. This version here: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.5.122 should work properly.

3. Startup isn't working properly and I'm curious as to why. How can I view logs regarding startup for debugging?

• During the Build step, instead of running just make run ENVIRONMENT=dev make. Flash like normal, and insert into your Embassy. Boot up your Embassy, and on another computer on the same network, ssh into the Embassy with the username/password ubuntu. After logging in and changing the password, run journalctl -u initialization.service -ef to view the start up logs.

4. I need to reset my password, how can I do that?

• At the time of writing, there is no way to do that in 0.3.0 cleanly. You'll need to reflash your device unfortunately.