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That works great! Thanks for taking the time to explain.

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Great idea. That's how I set up mine for demonstrations.

There are many ways to run a program on boot in the background of the Raspberry Pi.

This simplest would be to edit the file /etc/rc.local to add the command you would like to run on boot. Use the full path to run.py and include & at the end of your command to make it run in the background. Place your command before the line exit 0.

Your rc.local file should look like:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

sudo python3 /home/pi/unicorn-remote/run.py --original &

exit 0

You can also consider systemd or chrontab which are more advanced solutions, but I think rc.local is the way to go for something simple like this.

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