is there an efficient method to make a flow run on RPi immediately from bootup ? ideally without needing a full OS installed ? i was thinking it would be great if there was a utility that could make a RPi boot disk which compiles a users flow along with minimal linux distro and make a really lean b…

[image] EaB11: is there an efficient method to make a flow run on RPi immediately from bootup All you need to do is lookup how to run a script on boot and run node-red that way. Dave's install script pretty much does that anyway by defining a systemd script that starts node-red. Node-RED can …

The Node-RED docker images are based on alpine Linux which is a fairly small well supported distro, that can be installed as a base OS, so may be a good starting point.

no worries.. thanks for the ideas.. I'll check out the script and also the docker images.. it would be cool if there was a utility that burnt a Pi OS with NR as dedicated boot up.. similar to how Kodi works on Pi.. with some way for the user to add their flow and associated nodes to autorun... mayb…

Sounds like an interesting project for you :smiley: Probably not that hard to do and I'm sure that you would get support from people on the forum as you worked through the specifics.

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