You may want to launch a script or program on boot, but you don’t see an option for it on Raspberry Pi OS. It’s a question I often hear about, and the methods are not intuitive. In this post, I’ll show you several ways to accomplish this goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Raspberry Pi OS, the easiest solution to start automatically a program on boot is to use the crontab with the @reboot event. There are also other methods using the Linux init systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So yes, it’s possible, but you’ll need to go with the solution that best fits your needs. You can choose to follow the “best practices” or just remember the simplest solution (that’s often my favorite). Let’s go!<\/p>\n\n\n