If you would rather not install the script yourself, here's a fully configured disk image that works with any Raspberry Pi: memorial_sh_v05.zip (540MB .zip file)
It's a ready-to run clone of an SD card, the "hard drive" that a Raspberry Pi boots from. I've taken all the necessary steps to properly install the memorial script, including setting it up as a system service.
Clone the disk image back to a fresh SD card, following i.e. these instructions. Then plug the Raspberry into your local Ethernet network. If you want it to show what it's doing, connect it to a screen, but that's optional. Then connect it to power, and leave it running. That's literally it.
The disk image is based on version v6.32 (31/08/2020) of DietPi, a stripped-down Linux distribution for the Raspberry. It's tested to run on all versions of the Raspberry Pi, including the 4.
Because the memorial script works using basic networking technology, I only had to install a few more required packages (avahi-daemon
and git
). The hostname is memorial
, so use ping memorial
or ping memorial.local
to find out its IP address.
To see what's going on under the hood, feel free to log in with these details:
User pi
Password memorial
User root
Password memorial
Once up and running, make sure to change the password via sudo dietpi-config
(the usual sudo passwd
won't work persistently on DietPi ). Do this especially if you plan to keep it running for a long time.
The DietPi distribution comes with a few ways to easily set up Wifi. Log in with the above credentials, and use sudo dietpi-config
to set up your connection.