Guide for Raspberry to run MFBot on startup

[brosassin]

Goal: Set a Raspberry Pi with a clean Raspbian OS, to run MFBot on startup.

Assumption 1: You have Raspbian (with or without GUI) installed on a Raspberry Pi and have access with SSH and SFTP if no GUI installed or headless (or you are comfortable managing files using the terminal).
Assumption 2: You have created and have access to your Acc.ini file containing all your account settings. Usually, run the MFBot.exe bot on your Windows machine and setup your accounts, so in the end the Acc.ini file is created or updated.
Assumption 3: If asked, confirm every action during this guide.
Spoiler: I used "sudo" on some commands even if not needed to avoid some people with little experience on terminal commands, asking why the commands do not work. Also, I chose to create a service to run the bot because I found other methods not working well or not on all platforms. I created this guide because I wanted most of the Information needed to run MFBot on Raspbian to exist in one place and couldn't find it anywhere. Finally and obviously, this guide is working in the time of writing it and I am not responsible if something goes wrong or if something breaks.


Guide:

On Terminal (with GUI) / With SSH (Putty on Windows, without GUI)

• Update the OS with:

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  sudo apt-get update 

  and

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  sudo apt-get upgrade 

  and accepting by typing "y" when needed
• Install MFBot to Raspberry with:

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  wget http://www.mfbot.de/Download/latest/MFBot_Konsole_ARMRasp 

• Install Mono environment with:

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  sudo apt-get install mono-runtime 

Raspbian file manager (with GUI) / With SFTP (Filezilla on Windows, without GUI)

• Navigate to: /home/pi/
• Make sure the file exists: "MFBot_Konsole_ARMRasp"
• Create a safe folder (ex.): "MFBot"
• Move the file: "MFBot_Konsole_ARMRasp" to the created folder
• Take the file "Acc.ini" containing your account settings and place it inside the created folder
• Make sure that the created folder: "/home/pi/MFBot/" contains the files "MFBot_Konsole_ARMRasp" and "Acc.ini"

On Terminal (with GUI) / With SSH (Putty on Windows, without GUI)

• Go to the created folder:

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   cd /home/pi/MFBot/ 

• Make the bot executable with the command:

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  chmod a+x MFBot_Konsole_ARMRasp 

• Make sure it runs with:

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  ./MFBot_Konsole_ARMRasp 

• To stop the bot type:

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  exit 

Raspbian file manager (with GUI) / With SFTP (Filezilla on Windows, without GUI)
To add the run command on startup with a service, create a file "mfb.service" on "/home/pi/MFBot/" with the following contents:

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[Unit]
Description=MFBot Daemon
After=network.target
Requires=network.target

[Service]
User=pi
Group=pi
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/MFBot
ExecStart=/home/pi/MFBot/MFBot_Konsole_ARMRasp
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target 

On Terminal (with GUI) / With SSH (Putty on Windows, without GUI)

• If not already there, navigate to "/home/pi/MFBot/" using:

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  cd /home/pi/MFBot/ 

• Copy the file to /etc/systemd/system/ using:

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  sudo cp mfb.service /etc/systemd/system/mfb.service 

• To check the service, start it with: [/code]sudo systemctl start mfb.service [/code]
• Check if the bot is running, doing stuff in your account/accounts etc.
• And stop the service with:

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  sudo systemctl stop mfb.service

• When you confirmed everything works, enable the service to run on startup with:

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  sudo systemctl enable mfb.service

• And reboot to test it with:

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  sudo reboot

PS: I probably covered most aspects of installing and running MFBot on Raspbian. I would be happy to help and I am open to any optimizations you might suggest!

[brosassin]

Hello Brosassin,

I just like to let you know that the installation of Mono needs to be done a bit different. Due to the outdated Raspbian repository it might not work correctly.
According to the manual on the Mono homepage it should be done like this:
https://www.mono-project.com/download/s ... n-raspbian

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sudo apt install apt-transport-https dirmngr gnupg ca-certificates
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-raspbianbuster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mono-complete
sudo apt install referenceassemblies-pcl
sudo apt install ca-certificates-mono
sudo cert-sync

After the installation "apt-get update " and "apt-get upgrade" will keep you up to date.

I also created a installation tutorial a while ago, but I missed to translate it for our international community.
http://www.mfbot.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15154#p15154

[brosassin]

I just like to let you know that the installation of Mono needs to be done a bit different. Due to the outdated Raspbian repository it might not work correctly.
According to the manual on the Mono homepage it should be done like this:
https://www.mono-project.com/download/s ... n-raspbian

I sure will keep that in mind and thank you for your tip! However, I have not faced any trouble even if I installed Mono in a Raspberry Zero W clean-install Raspbian headless-no GUI and a Raspberry 2 Raspbian with GUI with a 1-year-old image, updated-upgraded with no problems. My guesses are that they updated the Raspbian repository... maybe?

I also created a installation tutorial a while ago, but I missed to translate it for our international community.
http://www.mfbot.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15154#p15154

Oh, ok! I see what you did by reading the commands (I know enough German to understand several things but havent spoken since years ago). Very thoughtful to create another user for running the bot, well done! On the other hand, I am not a fan of cronjobs. Anyway, I did not find the guide when searching for one. You might want to create a new post or something so new members could be benefited because I believe yours is very helpful and in depth!

Again, thank you for your reply. Always happy to see knowledgeable and helpful members!

[Mfighter]

Because your method creates 100% cpu usage on one core, I use the following ExecStart to fix it:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -DmS mfbot /home/ubuntu/mfbot/MFBot_Konsole_ARM64


This way you can also control the bot in screen.