In this recipe, we have installed the IoT Box image on the microSD card. In the second step, we downloaded the IoT Box image from the Odoo nightly builds. On the nightly page, you can find different images for the IoT Box. You need to choose the latest image from the Odoo nightly builds. When writing this book, we used the latest image, which was iotboxv18_12.zip. The Odoo IoT Box image is based on the Raspbian Stretch Lite OS and the image is loaded with the libraries and modules required to integrate the IoT Box with the Odoo instance.
In step 3, we downloaded the Balena Etcher utility tool used to flash the microSD card. In this recipe, we used Balena Etcher to flash the microSD card, but you can use any other tools to flash the microSD card.
In step 4, we flashed the microSD card with the IoT Box image. Note that this process can take several minutes. After the completion of the process, the microSD card will be ready to be used.
Perform the following steps if you want to verify whether the image is flashed successfully:
- Mount the microSD card into the Raspberry Pi.
- Connect it with the power supply and attach the external display through a HDMI cable (in practical usage, an external display is not compulsory; we have used it here just for verification purposes).
- The OS will boot up and show the following page:
