Installing Software

Coprocessor Installation

Imaging A Device

Currently there are no images that come preinstalled with the Synapse runtime, but it is a feature that is planned to be added in the future! Feel free to contribute to Synapse and add this feature in yourself by creating a PR on GitHub

Imaging Software

The recommended software in order to image a device's Operating system into a storage device is Blena Etcher

Suggested images:

• Orange Pi 5 - Bookworm Armbian 25.5.1

• Rasberry Pi - Bookworm Armbian 25.5.1 (Instructions included)

Device Install

First, you will need to have a local project set-up, please read Development Computer Installation and Project Management.

Now, you will need to have the coprocessor connected to the same internet access point (with internet access) as your development computer.

Getting Your IP Address

In order to get your device's IP address, you can run the following command in the coprocessors terminal

ip a

This will show you the device's IP address below the interface subsection.

Now, we need to configure our deployment device Adding Processors.

Finally, we can call the installation command:

<pythonexec> -m synapse_installer install <coprocessor nickname>

This will install all the requirement's onto the coprocessor and deploy your local project onto it.

Development Computer Installation

In order to install the python library on your development machine in order to create a project and configure deployment devices, run the following command:

pip install synapsefrc

This will be enough in order to be able to use the library on your local machine! In order to create a project, read Project Management