System requirements
We provide you with a custom Linux image. What you need:
- A Raspberry Pi 5 with minimum 4 GB RAM
- An appropriately sized SD card
- And SD card reader for Laptop or PC
- Recommended: active cooling fan
- Raspberry Pi Imager
Note: The Raspberry Pi 5 image also works on a Raspberry Pi 4. However, when using a Raspberry Pi 4, we recommend using the dedicated sklera Raspberry Pi 4 image instead. This image supports the Raspberry Pi 4’s GPU hardware acceleration (VideoCore VI).
Installation
- Download our image for the Raspberry Pi: https://sklera.tv/linux/raspi/image_2025-12-11-sklera-trixie-arm64-25.12-full.zip
- Connect your SD card reader to your Laptop or PC and insert the SD card.
- Install and launch the Raspberry Pi Imager.
- Select "Raspberry Pi 5".
- Select "Use custom".
- Select the downloaded image file and the SD card you want to flash.
- Click "write" and wait until the process is complete.
- Insert the SD card into your Raspberry Pi and turn the device on. Done!
After the first bootup the sklera player launches with Raspberry Pi OS's configuration wizard to allow you configuration of country, language, login user and Wi-Fi connection.
Attention: The login user name must be set to sklera, the password can be freely choosen.
Once you finish and reboot, the sklera player automatically starts.
Note: SSH access is enabled by default.