Pironman 5 build with success

Hi, I’m new to the industry, greetings, brought myself a Pironman 5 Rasberry pi 5 8GB back in January, assembled the Pironman 5 with no prior experience, followed the instructions that came with the Pironman 5 & the sunfounder tutorial on YouTube, initial boot was from sd card I then ran sudo apt update/upgrade I then went on to install the Pironman 5 software following the instructions from the sunfounder website after rebooting fans leds & oled screen came into effect, I then used the sd card copier in preferences to copy the sd card to nvme, ran sudo raspi-config advanced options changed the boot order to boot from nvme pcIe speed enabled gen 3 after a reboot Pironman 5 worked fine with no complications. Kind regards.


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I enjoyed building my Pironman 5 recently, on March 8, 2025. From opening the box to loading an operating system on a micro SD card it took only 3 hours 40 minutes. I have also built the Zeus Car and the RasPad 3.0. The Pironman booted successfully the first time, and I have it presently configured with a 1 TB M.2 SSD. I have the AI HAT kit for future fun. Putting these amazing kits together takes me way back to childhood, building Archer Kits from Radio Shack. Thanks Sunfounder!

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I am trying to follow Setting Up on Raspberry Pi OS/Ubuntu/Kali Linux/Homebridge — SunFounder Pironman 5 documentation but asetup is failing with below error and SW is not installed. Can someone help with this error.
Install Python source packages…

  • Uninstall pironman5 old package… Done
  • Install pironman5 from source… Error
  • Uninstall pm_auto old package… Done
  • Install pm_auto from source… Error
  • Uninstall pm_dashboard old package… Done
  • Install pm_dashboard from source… Done
  • Uninstall sf_rpi_status old package… Done
  • Install sf_rpi_status from source… Done
    Setup auto start…
  • Copy binary file… Done
  • Change binary file mode… Done

What system are you currently using, and what is the version?

Please use a compatible system to install the Pironman 5 software.

If you encounter an error during installation, try reinstalling a few times to see if it works.

If the error persists, please provide a complete screenshot of the error so we can help you analyze and resolve the issue.