Hey @chris. To start, welcome to the community! I think you will find us all to be a friendly and helpful bunch!
If you are new setting up a RPi, I might suggest that you use the pre-built version first. That way, you find some success quickly. After that, you can then rebuild it from scratch following the DIY instructions. (I just realized that this is your first RPi so you may be planning to treat it like a pet, care for it and maintain it, where as I tend to treat my RPis like cattle, if it stops doing what I want, I kill it and start over. It is no big deal for me to reimage a RPi 5-8 times a day.)
You can definitely use the RPi for multiple functions. I just suggest that you start with the n8n build first and then add the other services once you are done.
The major reason that I used the lite version of the Raspberry Pi OS is so that I can keep the RPi to as minimal an installation as possible. There are a number of advantages to this:
Easier to troubleshoot because there are fewer services that could be causing problems
More stable as services do not interact and interfere with each other
Easier to distribute because the image file is only a few MB rather than a few GB
All of the services and applications that are on the full version are also available for the lite version. The only difference is that they are not installed by default and will need to be done manually.
Hi @Tephlon. I know this is an old conversation but I couldn’t find one more recent about this topic.
About a year ago you helped me setting this up. I still have my pi running in my bedroom. It posts a bunch of rss feeds to my discord channel
Today I have 2 questions.
Is there any way to backup all the workflows at the same time? (are those files accessible somewhere in the sd or is it more complicated than that?)
Is there any way I could create more recent images for my rpi4B 4gb?. I’m in college studying programming so my skills aren’t the best but i can do a few things and I’m always tinkering with software. I wondering if you had any tool so that, for example, at any time I could download the latest release of N8N and merge it to create a flashable image. I’m in need of the outlook node and it’s not available in the version I have (0.67.3). I understand that you’re probably busy but any tips let me know . Thanks
Hey @realstylishguy, welcome back. It’s been a while since we’ve seen you
You can use the CLI to backup your workflows and credentials as mentioned here: CLI commands for n8n | Docs (this was, however, added in 0.103.0, so you’d need to update your n8n instance first).
If you use Docker, you can use this command: docker pull n8nio/n8n:latest-rpi.
Sorry if I’m slowly getting to understand how this works. I finally installed docker then downloaded the latest image and ran it… but I feel like the original image (that autoruns) has higher priority or something and I don’t know how to stop it.
This is the latest image I installed.
The next time you can also export all the workflows & credentials via the CLI and then import it again with the same. You can find information about that there: