Insect Monitoring — Device Deployment

The insect-monitoring flashing procedure is identical to Plant Growth (same scripts, same 8 steps); the only difference is which image gets flashed.

What you need

Item	Notes
A computer	macOS / Linux / Windows
An SD card	32 GB recommended ★ (all data on the card will be erased) ★
A card reader	Plugged in, recognised as a removable drive

Step 1 — Dry run first (★ writes nothing ★)

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://cnb.cool/iamfuture_x/pi-flash/-/git/raw/main/burn_pi_image_macos.en.sh -o pi-flash.sh && sudo bash pi-flash.sh --install --oneclick --app insect --dry-run

Windows

# ★ Paste this into a NORMAL PowerShell ★ — it will raise the UAC prompt itself
$d="$env:USERPROFILE\pi-flash"; ni -ItemType Directory -Force $d|Out-Null;
iwr -useb https://cnb.cool/iamfuture_x/pi-flash/-/git/raw/main/pi-flash.en.ps1 -OutFile "$d\pi-flash.en.ps1";
Start-Process powershell -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList "-NoProfile","-ExecutionPolicy","Bypass","-NoExit","-File","$d\pi-flash.en.ps1","-App","insect","-DryRun","-CacheDir","$d"

Step 2 — Flash for real

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://cnb.cool/iamfuture_x/pi-flash/-/git/raw/main/burn_pi_image_macos.en.sh -o pi-flash.sh && sudo bash pi-flash.sh --install --oneclick --app insect

Windows

# ★ Paste this into a NORMAL PowerShell ★ — it will raise the UAC prompt itself
$d="$env:USERPROFILE\pi-flash"; ni -ItemType Directory -Force $d|Out-Null;
iwr -useb https://cnb.cool/iamfuture_x/pi-flash/-/git/raw/main/pi-flash.en.ps1 -OutFile "$d\pi-flash.en.ps1";
Start-Process powershell -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList "-NoProfile","-ExecutionPolicy","Bypass","-NoExit","-File","$d\pi-flash.en.ps1","-App","insect","-CacheDir","$d"

★ The only difference from Plant Growth is ★ the --app insect flag (Windows: -App insect) ★.

★★ You will be asked twice ★★: ① your computer password (macOS) ② ★ type YES in uppercase ★.

What you will see

Identical to Plant Growth (same script):

Step 1  Detect removable drives   ★ system / virtual / optical drives are excluded ★
Step 2  Choose the target drive
Step 3  ★ Second confirmation (type YES) ★
Step 4  Obtain the image (★ the slim insect image is used ★)
Step 5  Write (progress bar)
Step 6  Read-back verification
Step 7  Safe eject and record version
Step 8  ★ MUST DO after installing ★

★ After flashing: the one thing you MUST do ★

df -h /

★ The root partition should be ≈ the card size ★ (32 GB ⇒ about 29 GB). Only ~3.4 GB ⇒ the resize did not run ⇒ report it, do not keep using the card.

FAQ

Insect monitoring shares the same scripts as Plant Growth — ★ see the "FAQ (common)" section of the deployment overview ★: no drive / picking the wrong drive / cache reuse / read-back mismatch / unattended mode / Chinese UI.