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If you are new to this, I have a guide that you should check, with the most important commands and shortcuts in Nano. Save and exit (CTRL+O, CTRL+X with nano).Paste a line starting with reboot, and add your script command just after, like /home/pi/Desktop/test.sh.You get an empty crontab file, it looks like this:.If’s your first time in the crontab, you need to select an editor (press Enter for nano). That’s the first solution you can use to start your program automatically, and probably the easiest one to remember in this list. The crontab also adds the possibility to start a script on boot, with the option. The crontab has many options to start a script at a specific time or regularly (daily, weekly, 3 times a month, etc.).īy the way, I wrote another post about this that you can check to learn more. 1 – Use the crontabĬron is a service, automatically started at each boot of the Raspberry Pi, which allows the user to execute scheduled commands.Ī crontab is a file that will allow us to list what we want to start and when to start it, in a format understandable by the cron service. If you have no idea which command you need to type, check the second part of this guide :). You need to change this line with the script or program you want to run. In this first part, I’ll go directly to the main point: how to start any script or program on boot.įor the example, I’ll use my test script which is in the Desktop folder, so /home/pi/Desktop/test.sh. The first third of the book teaches you the basics, but the following chapters include projects you can try on your own. It’s a 30-day challenge where you learn one new thing every day until you become a Raspberry Pi expert. If you’re looking to quickly progress on Raspberry Pi, you can check out my e-book here. That’s often my favorite choice, I don’t care about good practices when I’m the only one to use the device. You can also choose to follow “the good practices”, or keep only the simplest solution to remember. So yes, it’s possible, but you need to find the solution that fits your needs. On Desktop, the “Desktop Sessions Settings” app can be used to configure the same thing. On Raspberry Pi OS Lite, the easiest solution to start automatically a program on boot is to use the crontab with the event. It’s not so complicated, you have several ways, I’ll show you everything. You’re probably trying to start a script or an app, that’s mandatory in your setup, automatically on boot. It’s a question I often hear, so I created an entire post about it. Starting a script on boot is not really intuitive, whatever your system.
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