Just wanted a place to discuss progress/issues encountered when trying to set up nodes on a raspberry pi.
I have a raspberry pi 3 B+ that I bought several years ago(and never used) and I thought I’d pull it out to give these nodes a shot. If you have a raspberry pi 3 or older don’t bother, because they’re 32bit systems and some of the npm packages require a 64bit system, so it didn’t work.
If you have a raspberry pi 4 or newer I’d bet it would work fine. I used the raspbian OS(lite) and I think thats all you need.
I just checked, and Raspberry Pi 3 has a 64-bit CPU. When Raspberry Pi 4 was released, there was no 32-bit OS for it. At least the official OS wasn’t 64-bit.
There is now a 64-bit OS for RPi 3, 4, and 5:
Let’s see how it goes; maybe we can release an RPi image with the validator preconfigured so you can copy it to your RPi.
All right. The unchained node works on the Raspberry 3! No issue whatsoever once I switched to the 64bit OS, can’t believe I missed that & thought raspberry 3 was 32bit - must have read a bad article.
I get latency warnings sometimes because it’s on wifi, I could fix that if I plug it into ethernet. Also it’s only got a 4gb flash drive for storage. I’m running the lite version so idk if that’s a problem. Also I just realized I don’t know what unchained is, I thought this was a Kenshi node.
Would it be easy for someone completely new to pi boards too?
I don’t know jack about them or how they operate, but would like to try.
Maybe you can make a tutorial topic for it?
