tsOS-base is the basis for trackIT Systems operating system distributions for sensor stations in stand-alone operation in the field. It is based on a Raspberry Pi OS and installs some software that is required for the various purposes.
The image of tsOS-base can be downloaded in the GitHub Releases section of this repository.
tsOS-base is available in two versions for a) arm64 (Raspberry Pi 3+ and newer) and b) armhf (< Raspberry Pi 3) devices. The images can be built using pimod.
$ docker-compose run --rm pimod pimod.sh tsOS-base.Pifile
### FROM https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2023-10-10/2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz
Using cache: .cache/downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2023-10-10/2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz
### TO tsOS-base-arm64.img
Moving temporary /tmp/tmp.PoPljJLbOK to tsOS-base-arm64.img
...The system can be configured through different files in the /boot partition.
cmdline.txt holds the kernel boot commandline, which allows to configure the hostname in newer systemd versions. This behavioud is emulated and a hostname can be configured by setting systemd.hostname=workshop-test-00001
Mqttutil reports system statistics via MQTT, see example config.
A wireguard configuration can be set using this configuration file.
Files in this directory are loaded by mosquitto. E.g. mqtt brokers for reporting can be set using files in this folder.