Tier 1
Train + Serve
7900 XTX · MI210
train
serve
your AMD card.
serves LLMs.
Flash a USB, boot the AMD box, open the local web app. Models run offline.
RX 580RX 68007900 XTXMI210APUs
Compatibility depends on the card, driver, model, and available memory. Check before release use.
01how
ISO. Flash. Boot. cameo.local:9090
That’s the product. After login the box prints that URL. The screenshot above is the real console, not a mock.
02tiers
Vulkan on every card. ROCm when it helps.
Tier 2
Serve
RX 6800 · 6700 XT
train
serve
Tier 3
Vulkan Inference
RX 580 · APUs
train
serve
03get it
Image. Flash. Done.
1 · Download the image
The next Cameo prerelease is v0.2.0-beta.4. A matching ISO still needs to be built and qualified; the newest public ISO is v0.1.0-beta.2 Lite. Use the release list so a source version is never mistaken for a verified image.
Litesmaller · Vulkan only
Last public image: v0.1.0-beta.2. Current build pending.
View Lite releasesKnossos standalone (Windows + Linux)
Standalone harness
Next beta: v0.2.0-beta.2. Needs a model — Ollama, Anthropic, or a running Cameo box. Matching standalone artifacts are being rebuilt; no mislabeled binary is offered here.
Windowsx86_64 · beta
Knossos 0.2.0-beta.2 CLI plus constitution and license. Build pending.
View Knossos releasesA download appears only after its version and checksum pass the release gate.
Installation guide · USB to local chat · erases the selected disk
2 · Flash a USB
Windows: Rufus in DD Image mode (ISO mode often will not boot), or Etcher. Linux/macOS: Etcher, or:
sudo dd if=cameo-*.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync
3 · Plug it in, set an account
Disable Secure Boot (or the stick is ignored and Windows boots). Put the USB in the AMD machine. Install Cameo to disk is already the default entry. It shows the detected GPU and tier, then asks for:
which disk to erase
admin username
admin password
This installer erases the disk you pick
The selected drive is wiped — partitions, Windows, everything. There is no undo. Nothing is touched until you pick a disk, review the plan, and type that disk’s name (for example sda) to confirm.
I understand this will erase the selected disk
Nothing is downloaded. The installer copies the live image onto that disk, writes a console key, and enables cameod. Then reboot and pull the USB.
4 · Play, offline
From a laptop or phone on the same LAN (plug the box into Ethernet if it has a port), open the URL printed after login — http://cameo.local:9090 or the IP. Enter the key. Start qwen2.5-0.5b (smoke test, already on disk). Chatting never phones home. Extra GGUFs: drop them in /var/lib/cameo/models.
Cameo Mesh: that’s when you connect Wi-Fi
A single box does not need Wi-Fi. Cameo Link joins it to a request-level pool; Mesh does not combine VRAM or shard one inference across machines.
Ethernet — plug in, DHCP is automatic
Wi-Fi — iwctl on that node only
extra models — cameo pull
iwctl station list station wlan0 scan station wlan0 get-networks station wlan0 connect 'YourSSID'
Pair Cameo Link to the hub with a single-use code. Request routing and pairing are preview; mutual TLS is not available yet. One machine, one card, one house can stay offline after you flash.
Developers: container or build the ISO yourself
Container — host owns the GPU driver:
podman build -f containers/Containerfile -t cameo:vulkan . podman run --rm -p 9090:9090 \ -v cameo-models:/var/lib/cameo/models \ --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri \ --group-add video --group-add render \ cameo:vulkan
Build the ISO on an Arch host:
git clone https://github.com/sadlowskik/Cameo sudo ./scripts/build-iso.sh sudo CAMEO_EDITION=lite ./scripts/build-iso.sh
Beta, pre-v1. Flash an .iso, not Source code. Check SHA256SUMS. The disk installer erases the drive you pick. Source: github.com/sadlowskik/Cameo.