Raspberry Pi Pre‐Configured Images

The Short Version: We do not provide pre-configured images for radiosonde_auto_rx. Please do not ask us for them.

Lots of people ask us: 'Why don't you provide a Raspberry Pi disk image with radiosonde_auto_rx already preinstalled and configured?'

Here's why we don't:

• We believe there's better value in writing good setup documentation, that if you follow carefully, will let you end up with a fully functioning auto_rx installation. Who knows, maybe you'll learn something along the way!
• We believe in our software builds being transparent. We don't want to supply a disk image with who-knows-what extra software installed on it. (Backdoor? Weird OpenVPN link sending back telemetry?) Making a fully open RPi image build pipeline is difficult.
• We've previously seen pre-configured images supplied by others break when trying to perform automatic updates, resulting in many users stations breaking. Those users didn't have much understanding of how their systems worked, so it took a lot of handholding to be able to get their stations functional again.
• There's heaps of good documentation available on getting a Raspberry Pi setup to the point where you can start installing radiosonde_auto_rx. This guide from the RPi Foundation for example.

We do provide Docker images for radiosonde_auto_rx, which are built using a transparent build pipeline using Github Actions, and ensure a consistent operating environment between installations. This is the fastest way to get radiosonde_auto_rx going once you have your RPi setup.

We will not provide support for any radiosonde_auto_rx RPi images produced by third parties. Please use our installation instructions or our docker image instead.