How to run Python programs at startup, on Raspberry Pi

Do you want to know how to automatically start your Python programs when your Raspberry Pi boots up and have them self-heal and restart on failure? Then this is the video for you.

In this video I'll show you how to create a SystemD service definition file so that you can run Python scripts, or actually any program automatically when your computer boots up.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:27 Get-Subs Python program
01:42 How to create a service file
04:47 Enabling the Service
05:16 Starting the Service
05:38 Stopping & Restarting the Service
05:58 Disabling the Service
06:29 Self-Healing demo
07:20 Service Status using systemctl
08:06 Subscriber scroller Demo



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[crazymooseman]

This video was a godsend, finally put an end to hours of struggle 🙏. I beg you make a video explaining all the features of using services for python.

[innovationsurvival]

Very, very, very helpful.

Profuse thanks.

Raspberry Pi Debian switched to systemd and all auto run at boot tutorials were useless.

Profuse thanks.

Watching from Reno Nevada USA.

[santosvella]

I was just writing a service when i saw this. I believe one can take advantage of the defaults making these less lines.

[Lord-qkhj]

Great video could you run a voice assistant script that same way, and what device was that displaying on?

[triularity]

Would a restart throttle setting be useful (if systemd supports such a thing) in this case? You don't want it dying, being immediately restarted, pulling your counts, dying immediately after, then repeating a few seconds later.. potentially causing it to go over your maximum daily youtube api limit.

[RemessOfficial]

been trying to get this to work for an hour, i followed the video to a tee and still cant get it. I'm using a simple test script its nothing complicated

[adityaryanmahendra]

Q hey sir, what if i need the interactive shell/input for my QR scanner?

[asemmuhammad]

thank you for this video< please, how can i learn linux in general to achieve your level

[kyle]

Mine still won't launch at boot. It will launch if I manually start it but on boot it is just inactive

[chasewebb]

it says i dont have permission to write /lib/systemd/system. how do i fix that

[NoProblem]

I find docker much easier, install docker, build a image, and use `--restart unless-stopped`