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Raspberry Pi & IoT Engineering• 6 min read
Background Daemons with systemd (Auto-Boot)
Configure systemd unit files so your Python IoT scripts restart automatically upon system boot or power recovery.
Creating a systemd Service File
Create /etc/systemd/system/iot-app.service:
``ini
[Unit]
Description=My IoT Python Service
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/app.py
Restart=always
User=pi
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
``
Enable with sudo systemctl enable iot-app.service and start with sudo systemctl start iot-app.service.
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Test Yourself With Exercise
Which Linux init system is used on Raspberry Pi OS to manage background daemons and auto-start services on boot?