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Ambianic consists a several modules as illustrated below:

Ambianic-Modules

The simplest way to get started is to follow these steps:

If you prefer an alternative hosting platform for your Ambianic Edge device, keep reading about more advanced installation options.

Advanced Install

If you are familiar with Docker you will be able to install Ambianic Edge in less than 5 minutes on almost any computer with x86 or ARM architecture. Follow the steps below:

Ambanic Edge Docker image

Ambianic Edge is available as a docker image for ARM and x86 architectures so it can be deployed on most modern machines and operating systems.

The reference test system is: Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM and 32GB SD card. Although docker images are available for most common ARM and x86 machines.

To deploy on a Raspberry Pi 4, you will need a recent Raspbian install with Docker and Docker Compose on it. You can install and run the image in the default pi user space on Raspbian.

Installer for Raspberry OS and Debian-like linux

We have a commodity script that will take care of installing and setting up your system. Run this line to setup

wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ambianic/ambianic-quickstart/master/installer.sh | sh

After the setup you can find the installation under /opt/ambianic where you can find the configuration files and the data directory (under /opt/ambianic/data).

Ambianic Pipeline configuration will be under /etc/ambianic.

The Ambianic Edge CLI

The installer will start the service for you. To manage the runtime you can use the ambianic command line. A few examples:

  • Start, Stop or Restart with ambianic [ start | stop | restart ]
  • View the instance status with ambianic status
  • View logs with ambianic logs
  • Open the UI (if you system has a GUI) with ambianic ui
  • Upgrade the installation with ambianic upgrade

Ambianic UI app

Ambianic UI is a modern prorgressive web application (PWA) that provides Plug-and-Play pairing and remote access to Ambianic Edge devices.

Read more about Ambianic UI.

Development

If you want to contribute to the code read how to setup a development environment

Troubleshooting

If you experience problems with your initial setup and you can't find a good solution online, feel free to engage the team on Twitter, Slack, or Github discussion forums.

Supporting the project

If you find value in this project, consider supporting its future success. See the sustainability section.