OpenClaw On Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM

Introduction

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This is the last post in my series on running OpenClaw on hardware that isn’t a Mac Mini. Today we’ll try it out on a pretty beefy Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM. OpenClaw ran w/out any issues on the Pi 400 with 4GB of RAM so this will likely be a pretty boring post. I’m not going to try on the Pi 5 because we’re already at a place where I can run any common OpenClaw workload. If you have a Raspberry Pi 4 with at least 4GB of RAM lying around, you can 100% use that to run OpenClaw instead of dropping $500.00 on a new Mac Mini. If you just need an excuse to buy a Mac Mini, I get it, that’s fine, don’t let me stop you.

Install Raspberry Pi OS

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As usual, I installed the 64bit Lite version of Raspberry Pi OS and booted up the Pi.

Install OpenClaw

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Follow the Raspberry Pi specific install instructions located here.

Run OpenClaw

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Since I’ve been using my OpenClaw instance for several weeks now and want to preserve it’s history and memories, I tarred up the .openclaw folder on the Pi 400:

tar -cvf dot.openclaw.tar .openclaw.tar

then I scped it over from the new Pi:

scp openclaw@192.168.1.70:~/dot.openclaw.tar .

and untarred it on the new system:

tar -xvf dot.openclaw.tar

And then started the OpenClaw gateway:

openclaw gateway

Automations

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The 3 automations I setup are already running since I copied all my configuration from the previous iteration:

1. Check my blog for new posts
2. Check your own health daily
3. Check the weather and let me know if there’s anything I should be aware of

I validated they were all working.

Discord

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Haven’t bothered to get discord running again, as I’m always interacting with openclaw directly from the web ui.

Updates

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Updates seem to be working again. No issues running openclaw update or updating directly from the GUI.

Conclusions

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No issues, OpenClaw is running just fine on a Pi 4 with 8GBs of RAM, as expected.