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• Raspberry Pi 4 (RPI4)  (RPIv3B/3B+ is deprecated)
• Balena Etcher to write the Raspberry Pi SD card: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
• get and load (lib32-)rdk-generic-mediaclient-wpe-image software image (aka firmware image) on your RPI4
• Your own built DAC app: you only need the OCI image (.tar) and not a generated bundle (.tar.gz). See this wiki page. Not needed if you only want to install and run other people's published DAC apps.

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rdk6.1 mediaclient SW image on RPI4

As an Appdeveloper you want to test and run your DAC Application on a set of real Hardware Reference devices. So you need such device and host image of that device. If your app code complies with DAC app contract for binary compatibility it should be able to run on the various RDK Video Accelerator Devices provided these run firmware images (=monolitic software image) that also live up to that DAC contract for binary compatibility. The RDK6.1 monolitic software releases live up to that contract (as of RDK6.1_RC2 Feb 2024), contains UI to browse and install DAC apps from RDKM catalog and is advised/required to be loaded on those Video Accelerator Devices.

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