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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 84-103: Update the “Install with one command” section to avoid
duplicating externally maintained installer commands and version-specific
prerequisites. Replace the detailed platform instructions with a conceptual
overview and a link to the Signal K Universal Installer’s maintained quick-start
documentation, while retaining only stable high-level capabilities.
- Around line 98-103: Update the Windows installation documentation around the
WSL2/Podman command and the later signalk-server-windows link to clearly
distinguish the two installers, identifying whether the latter is a separate
supported option, legacy installer, or superseded path and guiding users on
which path to choose.
- Line 103: Update the README text around the bug-report feature to add a clear
privacy warning describing that reports may contain settings.json,
hardware.json, plugin versions, and 24 hours of journal output, and note that
Windows offers public filebin upload. Include a link to the project’s redaction
guidance before advertising the feature.
- Around line 90-100: Update the Linux, macOS, and Windows installation commands
to use an approved installer source and a signed or checksum-validated immutable
release, replacing the mutable GitHub Pages scripts; ensure any container images
referenced by the installer use immutable digest pins, with particular care for
the elevated Windows PowerShell path.
- Around line 98-100: Update the Windows installation instructions surrounding
the PowerShell installer command to document the fresh-host flow: after WSL2
setup, reboot Windows, reopen Administrator PowerShell, and rerun the installer
so Podman can start; alternatively, link to the Windows Podman machine
installation walkthrough.
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Thanks — addressed the two findings about this repository, and pushed ba3c979. Fixed
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- Around line 89-92: Update the installer documentation near the Linux install
command to warn that the updater and doctor services bind to 0.0.0.0 by default
and expose unauthenticated read-only diagnostics over the LAN. Document setting
SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY=true to restrict these services to localhost, without
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Added the warning in 8d8ea4d — the section now states that the updater and doctor consoles are LAN-reachable by default and names For the record on the other half of the suggestion: the installer already surfaces this at the point of installation rather than only in the env var. When it binds I am leaving the default as-is here. The consoles are the recovery surface — the doctor's read-only probes are unauthenticated by design so they still answer when the stack is unhealthy — and most installs are headless and reached from another machine, so flipping the default to localhost would break the common case. Mutating updater endpoints and doctor recovery endpoints are bearer-token gated regardless of bind address. Whether that trade-off should change is a question for the installer's own repository rather than this documentation PR. |
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- Line 92: Update the macOS and Windows installer wrapper entry points to
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it on the bash side of the pipeline or exporting it before execution. Ensure all
installer paths preserve the variable so the updater and doctor bind to
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Checked this one against the installers rather than the README, and the finding is right: Fixed upstream in the installer rather than here, since that is where the bug is: dirkwa/signalk-universal-installer#273 forwards it on both wrappers, escapes the value, and carries it across the WSL2 reboot on Windows (the resume command is rebuilt from The sentence in this PR is accurate for the Linux one-liner it sits next to, and accurate everywhere once that ships. Happy to hold this PR until it does if you would rather not merge documentation that is briefly ahead of two of the three platforms. |
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The installer fix shipped in v1.0.1, so the caveat in my previous comment no longer applies — Verified against the published scripts rather than the merge: the macOS and Windows installers served from the site now forward the variable into the podman machine, and Nothing in this PR changed — it is still the same one-file README diff at 8d8ea4d. |
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92-92:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 MajorDocument the fresh Windows reboot and rerun.
On a fresh Windows host, the installer enables WSL2, exits, and requires a reboot. The user must reopen Administrator PowerShell and run the installer again before the Podman stack starts. Link directly to the maintained Windows walkthrough or add this conditional flow. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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89-92:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 MajorKeep the installer source approved and integrity-checked.
This README embeds a
curl | bashcommand from a repository outside Signal K. The external owner can change code executed during installation, and the GitHub Pages release tree can change independently. (github.com)Use an approved artifact with a signature, checksum, or immutable commit. Alternatively, keep this README conceptual and link to the maintained installer documentation.
As per path instructions: documentation should describe architecture conceptually, not duplicate detailed implementation steps or configuration values.
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92-92:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 MajorShow the platform-specific syntax for
SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY.In a POSIX pipeline,
SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY=true curl ... | bashsets the variable only forcurl. The downloaded installer does not receive it. Showexport SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY=truebefore the command, or place the assignment on thebashside. Add the equivalent PowerShell form, such as$env:SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY='true', beforeiwr ... | iex. The installer documentation explicitly requires the variable on thebashside of the pipe. (github.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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92-92:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 MinorWarn users before advertising bug-report uploads.
The Windows flow can upload a public filebin bundle containing
settings.json,hardware.json, plugin versions, and 24 hours of journal output. Add a privacy and redaction warning, or link to the installer’s privacy guidance, before advertising bug reports. (raw.githubusercontent.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@README.md`:
- Line 92: Update the README’s universal installer quick-start description to
document that a fresh Windows installation may enable WSL2 and exit, requiring a
reboot; instruct users to reopen Administrator PowerShell and rerun the
installer afterward before the Podman stack starts, preferably linking to the
maintained Windows installation walkthrough.
- Around line 89-92: Update the README installation section to remove the
mutable external curl-to-bash command and detailed installer-specific
configuration values. Replace it with a conceptual reference to the maintained,
approved installer documentation, or use only an integrity-verified immutable
artifact such as a signed, checksummed, or commit-pinned release.
- Line 92: Update the README installation guidance around SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY
to show platform-specific usage that passes the variable to the installer: use
an export before the POSIX curl-to-bash command or assign it on the bash side,
and show the equivalent PowerShell environment assignment before the iwr-to-iex
command.
- Line 92: Add a privacy warning near the Windows installer description before
mentioning the doctor’s bug-report capability, stating that reports may upload a
public filebin bundle containing settings.json, hardware.json, plugin versions,
and 24 hours of journal output; include redaction guidance or link to the
installer’s privacy guidance.
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One of these four was still valid; the other three are re-raises I verified and answered on earlier passes. Pushed 9230456. Fixed — how to pass the flag. The README named Not changing — unpinned installer source. Same distribution model as the other install paths already linked from this section, and pinning to signed or checksummed artifacts is a change to the installer's release process rather than to this README. Not changing — Windows reboot flow. The installer handles it: enabling WSL2 detects the pending reboot, prints "Reboot required (this is normal - not an error)" with numbered re-run steps, and is idempotent so re-running resumes. Re-checked against the currently published Not changing — bug-report privacy. The upload is opt-in and warned at the point of use: the prompt states filebin.net is public, that anyone with the URL can download the bundle, and that bins auto-expire. Also re-checked against the published script. Both of those last two describe installer runtime behaviour. Restating it here is what the maintainability finding on this same line warns against, since it would drift the moment the installer changes. Unrelated to these findings, the platform gap raised earlier is now closed: the installer's v1.0.1 release forwards the variable into the podman machine on macOS and Windows, so the sentence is accurate on all three platforms. |
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- Line 92: Update the README installation guidance around the
SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY environment variable to document the Windows PowerShell
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while retaining export SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY=true for Linux and macOS.
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Right, and my previous wording was wrong for Windows: The line now names the variable once and gives both forms parenthetically: Checked both forms reach the installer rather than just parse. The POSIX form drives the bind-host block to |
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The installation options in the README all assume the reader either buys hardware with Signal K Server inside, flashes a prebuilt Raspberry Pi image, or works through a manual install. There is nothing for the reader who already has a machine and just wants the server running on it, and the Windows entry points at a separate project.
This adds a one-command install at the head of the section, covering Linux, macOS and Windows 11 from a single installer that runs the server as a container stack on amd64 and arm64. It also brings an updater for switching and rolling back server images, a doctor for health checks and bug reports, and a
signalkcommand line tool.It is a new subsection rather than an entry in either existing list, since it is an install method rather than a device or a prebuilt image. The
#how-to-get-signal-k-serveranchor is unchanged, so the two installation pages that link to it still resolve.Disclosure: I maintain the universal installer, so this entry is mine. I put it at the head of the section because it is the lowest-friction option for a reader who already has hardware; happy to move it below the existing options instead if you would rather.
Verified: all three install URLs return 200, and
prettier --checkpasses on README.md. No version numbers touched.Summary
signalkCLI.signalk-server-windows.SIGNALK_LOCALHOST_ONLY=truebefore installation.#how-to-get-signal-k-serveranchor unchanged.