[FEATURE]: Please add under imager settings the ability to enable the serial console

[Jibun-no-Kage]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Have to edit the config.txt after imaging to enable UART serial console. I have many Pi devices that are headless or have a USB-UART board connected to the serial console. I rarely have Pi device connected to any time of monitor, given the pi devices i have are commercial oriented applications not hobbyist or learning environment based. I never have a GUI environment. Would be nice to have SSH enabled as a option on initial boot as well.

Describe the solution you would like to see implemented

As noted above have imager include settings for UART-USB enable as an option. Would also be nice of on initial boot SSH could be enabled as well as a configuration option.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Other than constantly have to edit the config.txt to set enable_UART=1?

Additional context

See comments above

Version

1.9.2 (Default)

[lurch]

As noted above have imager include settings for UART-USB enable as an option.

Enabling the serial console is probably too much of a niche feature to add a button specifically for it to Raspberry Pi Imager? RPi Imager is designed to be easy enough for complete beginners to use, and every extra option we add adds additional cognitive overhead. If you're using Raspberry Pi OS, then there are already options in raspi-config and "Raspberry Pi Configuration" for easily enabling the UART.

Would also be nice of on initial boot SSH could be enabled as well as a configuration option.

If you're flashing Raspberry Pi OS to your SD card then there is already an option to enable SSH - see https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#advanced-options

If you're using an OS other than Raspberry Pi OS, then Raspberry Pi Imager has no idea what steps would be needed to enable SSH in that OS, and so doesn't give you any options.