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Running Bisq on Raspberry Pi

Running Bisq on Raspberry Pi

Working as of 2023-01-13

My setup:

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 2GB Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit with Desktop Release Date: September 22nd 2022

Bisq 1.9.9 built from source

Install Java

Build Bisq from source

  • git clone https://github.com/tmakerman/bisq.git
  • cd bisq
  • git checkout bisq-on-rpi-v1.9.9
  • ./gradlew build
    • some artifact dependency verifications fail, this can be ignored
    • build took ~ 26 min on my RPi 4 4GB
    • Bisq is ready to run, however when it initializes it will try to connect to Bitcoin network over Tor using its bundled Tor which fails and it will eventually time out. Instead setup a Tor hidden service and configure Bisq to connect through that…

Setup Tor

deb [arch=arm64] http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bullseye main
deb-src [arch=arm64] http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bullseye main
  • curl https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | sudo apt-key add -
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring
  • Edit /etc/tor/torrc adding the following lines to bottom of file:
SOCKSPort 9050
Log notice stdout
ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1
CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/bisq/
HiddenServicePort 8080 127.0.0.1:8080
  • Determine Tor group:
  • grep User /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc
  • sudo usermod -a -G debian-tor satoshi
    • replace satoshi with your username
  • sudo shutdown -r now
  • Wait for system to come back up
  • sudo systemctl enable tor
  • sudo systemctl start tor

Running Bisq

  • from RPi Desktop environment terminal window
  • cd bisq
  • ./bisq-desktop --torControlPort 9051 --torControlCookieFile=/var/run/tor/control.authcookie --torControlUseSafeCookieAuth
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Sorry @richardalg not sure. I haven't run on RPi for a while. I do remember running into issue somewhere along the way with that library, but I don't remember specifics. I saw at this comment
bisq-network/bisq#6758 (comment)
@napoly says they "Changed it for pure JavaFX ProgressBar"
maybe you could ask them to elaborate

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napoly commented Mar 13, 2024

there is not enough gun powder to push this for Bisq as it all goes to Bisq 2.. I have done this for Haveno (which is a fork of Bisq) mainly in this commit: haveno-dex/haveno@c777133 it uses the newest java 21 with newest gradle 8.6 and newest java fx 21.. (not sure how it will act on Raspberry Pi)

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Thank you for the note @napoly

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richardalg commented Mar 15, 2024 via email

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