[LAU] Setting Up Raspberry Pi Media Players for Installation

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Brandon Hale wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I know this might be a weird place to ask, but thought some of you may 
> have some insight. I'm setting up four raspberry pis for an installation 
> to just loop through videos on four TVs with vlc and openbox.
>
> Do you think I could set up the image on one pi, and then clone them on 
> other sd cards for the other 3 pis? There should be no issues with doing 
> that, right?, especially since I don't plan on giving them internet 
> access. The pis all have the same size sd card too, making this even 
> easier. I think I'm just going to throw 32-bit arch linux arm one of the 
> pis, set one up the way I want, and then clone them for the other pis.

The only problem I can see (assuming using dd to copy) is that all USB 
cards can vary somewhat in size even for the same size (ssd do this too). 
You may wish to make your master copy partition just a little bit small. 
Even a network should not be a problem as I think DHCP can be set up to 
make sure all node have unique names as well as IPs. So streaming from a 
central server or making content changes there would not be out of the 
question.

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Len Ovens
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