[Feature] Development Images

[kornpow]

I am spinning up a raspberry pi to do some seedsigner dev, and the process generally makes me kind of annoyed that I have to do some much setup, starting from Raspberry Pi OS, to get to the point where I am in the Python code.

I am fiddling with SSH, plugging in my device to a monitor (or using my network modem to find an IP address of the Pi). Im already getting tired and wondering where I went wrong in life, and now I have to install the dependencies.

Idea

Create a development image which has all of the dependencies installed, python, picamera, zbar, etc, but also exposes a port on SSH.

I have been spoiled with my LuckFox Pico work, adb makes interacting with the device a breeze, and doesn't require a network. Maybe we can install adb on this development image?

What to do

Create a SeedSigner OS version using buildroot which has a minimal but still thorough development setup.

Let me know if you would prefer for me to move this to the SeedSigner OS repo

[alvroble]

I think this is a great proposal, it would really help lower the barrier for new contributors.

In my opinion, the best way to implement this would be to add a dedicated branch to the seedsigner-os repo specifically for building a development image.

Having said that, I don't have all the technical details but I think that in the seedsigner-os repo there are already devversions for each device. I don't know if that matches what you said, but in any case, that "dev image" maybe could be included along the image releases.

One question that come to me is: how could would we configure SSID + password for WiFi access over SSH?

Definitely supportive of the idea though.

[kornpow]

Not saying we need to go this route but wanted to document here, how the Luckfox Pico sets up ADB. Mostly so I have it written somewhere.

ADB really is an interesting tool. Not having to deal with ssh or internet or serial ports, but still getting a shell is very cool.

udhcpc -i usb0 -T 1 -A 0 -b -q
/usr/bin/adbd