PartKeepr (Personal Inventory System) NO FUSS Installation!

[Max_RPi]

Morning everybody!

If you're searching for a generic inventory system for your workshop, you're in the right place!
After several days looking for such thing for my growing workshop and after trying complicated ERP systems like Odoo and NextERP and tired of easy to crap spreadsheets I finally found PartKeepr (Online Demo here: https://demo.partkeepr.org/).
Web: https://partkeepr.org/# Github: https://github.com/partkeepr/PartKeepr

The problem is linux and for me, being a not so proud windows guy, was tortuous and finally impossible to get this running on a Raspberry Pi 3, even following dedicated instructions. A very good friend of mine, linux master, had to help me.
Because I don't want you to suffer the same than me and because, like me, you only want to spend your time introducing your fancy pieces, I have created a image of my fresh installation for just burn a MicroSD and get ready!

Instructions:
1. [li]Download my custom zipped image (4GB) from https://mega.nz/#!WCQV1aSD!4FnrOf93mTsR ... vxVbodAm98.
2. Download and learn to use Win32 Disk Imager from here: https://raspberry-projects.com/pi/pi-op ... diskimager
3. Burn the image into a 32GB or greater MicroSD card.
4. Introduce the card in a LAN connected Raspberry Pi (Pi 3 recommended) and switch on.
5. With whatever PC connected in the same network write in a browser the Raspberry IP and press enter (you can see the IP in the router page).
6. Use the default "Administrator/admin" credentials to enter in your PartKeepr system.
7. You're done! Now you can start to work!

Features/limits of my image:
* It's 32GB. Yes, I know, I should have used a smaller MicroSD.
* It's Raspbian Stretch OS with GUI and recommended apps, all installed with NOOBS. Yes, I know, I should have been used a simpler initial image.
* It's PartKeepr 1.4.0 version.
* It's clean. Before I started to introduce my personal data, made the image.
* The speed improvements are done: https://wiki.partkeepr.org/wiki/APC_Metadata_Caching.
* You may or not experiment login issues (invalid username or password promt). That's because the server is configured as WSSE authentication method. You can easily change it connecting the Pi to a monitor and following this instruction to change to HTTPBasic authentication method: https://wiki.partkeepr.org/wiki/Authentication.

For the developer: Felicia, I really thank you your extraordinary job, you're free community support and love how you have made the difficult easy and nice.
I would really like to contact you with some simple ideas and I'm looking forward to see the 1.5 version improvements!!!

Well, I hope you all enjoy this!

[AdamStanislav]

Morning everybody!

It’s evening where I am. It’s afternoon somewhere in the world, high noon yet somewhere, etc.

Enough reason for me to stop and not read the rest of your message.

[rpdom]

Yes, it is morning here. About 4:15am.

* It's 32GB. Yes, I know, I should have used a smaller MicroSD, but it's better to let your PC downloading than fight with linux.

You do realise that not all 32GB cards are the same size?

It is very likely that a number of people trying to install your image will hit a problem because their 32GB cards are smaller than yours.

Advice:
* Create it as a Raspbian zipped image file, reduced down as far as you can get it.

* Make sure the "resize on first boot" option is set.

* Don't use NOOBS.

* Use Raspbian Stretch with GUI, but not the recommended apps as they can take up a lot of space. Any apps required can be added when you prepare your image.
Actually, I see no reason to need a GUI at all, unless you are using a browser on the Pi itself to access the app. Raspbian Lite would make the image even smaller and faster to download. Not everyone has high speed unlimited use internet.

* Recommend using Etcher to install the image, not Win32DiskImager. Etcher is far superior.

[Max_RPi]

Morning everybody!

It’s evening where I am. It’s afternoon somewhere in the world, high noon yet somewhere, etc.

Enough reason for me to stop and not read the rest of your message.

Hahaha. I wrote this from my bed at night. I didn't stop to think where is morning or not.

Yes, it is morning here. About 4:15am.

* It's 32GB. Yes, I know, I should have used a smaller MicroSD, but it's better to let your PC downloading than fight with linux.

You do realise that not all 32GB cards are the same size?

It is very likely that a number of people trying to install your image will hit a problem because their 32GB cards are smaller than yours.

Advice:
* Create it as a Raspbian zipped image file, reduced down as far as you can get it.

* Make sure the "resize on first boot" option is set.

* Don't use NOOBS.

* Use Raspbian Stretch with GUI, but not the recommended apps as they can take up a lot of space. Any apps required can be added when you prepare your image.
Actually, I see no reason to need a GUI at all, unless you are using a browser on the Pi itself to access the app. Raspbian Lite would make the image even smaller and faster to download. Not everyone has high speed unlimited use internet.

* Recommend using Etcher to install the image, not Win32DiskImager. Etcher is far superior.

Hey, thank you for the advices. I'm planning to do it well in a near future. But given that I don't know how to install this I can't annoy my friend again. I though in copy all the filesystem to a fresh smaller instance. I don't know if it's possible.
About the SDs, I know. I've used a SanDisk one. If someone cannot use the image in his 32GB card, has to use a 64GB one.
Bear in mind this is not a super optimal solution, only a easy one!

[KHuffman35]

Thank you for posting this image. For someone not immersed in the software, it can be a pretty heavy lift to install (especially since newer versions of PHP and MariaDB have issues with the software). Your image file was extremely easy and fast to setup. It works well on my Pi3

I need to make changes as the Pi root user (adding other software), but you didn't post the password. Would you please share?

Regards,
Kevin

[Max_RPi]

I need to make changes as the Pi root user (adding other software), but you didn't post the password. Would you please share?

Regards,
Kevin

Hello Kevin. Mmmm I can't remember, but I think I set "root" also as password, or "password" or "admin". Could you try please?

[chrisvn]

Hi Kevin

Did you manage to log in as root? If so, which username and password did you use. I have the same issue and none of the passwords seems to work.
Regards
Chris

[Gliderguider]

Thanks for posting this, it's absolutely what I'm looking for as an inventory system for our aircraft restoration company.

Problem is... I have an RPi 4, which works absolutely fine with a standard pi installation onto a 16Gb Card.

I purchased a 128Gb Micro SD for this purpose, and I've followed the steps of formatting in FAT32 and then writing the image to the card.

When I put the card into the RPi 4, I cet the green light flash for a couple of seconds, then nothing. No more reading from the card.

Is there something I might have missed? Is the Pi 4 fussy over which cards it uses? This is an Inegral ultima pro U3 card so plenty quick enough.

About the only thing I'm missing, is that I'm not plugged into the ethernet, I have a montior attached and was going to setup a wireless connection. Might that be the problem? Is the build expecting an ethernet connection immediately?

Thanks in advance.

Andy

[wildfire]

First post says it's a stretch image, the Pi 4 requires buster.

[scruss]

TBH, it doesn't look *that* hard an install from the https://github.com/partkeepr/PartKeepr source. Haven't tried it, so could be utterly wrong.

What is it with users with “RPi” in their handles creating big unmaintainable magic installation routines and then bogging off forever?