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TIL How to set up Archi Steam Farm on Raspberry Pi

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Archi Steam Farm lets you farm steam cards while you live your life.
Get this Tampermonkey script, and you can autosell everything.

NOTE: I tried this on my Raspberry Pi B Rev 2, and it did not work.
I then tried it on my Raspberry Pi 4, and it's up and running!

Part 0: Getting a Raspberry Pi Installed

For the Raspberry Pi Documentation for Getting Started

  1. Get Raspberry Pi Imager

HEADS UP - this is so stupid.

  1. Use the secret Ctrl+Shift+X to open up Advanced Options, so you can config things like ssh, wifi, etc.

Then have it copy into a SD card.

Part 1: Assuming you have installed Raspberry Pi OS

In your terminal (Mac, Linux, or use the Bash Terminal for Windows):
ssh pi@192.168.x.x
Default password is raspberry

Then apt-update
sudo apt-get update

Part 2: Archi Steam Farm

  1. Follow their instructions. https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Setting-up

a. Get Debian .NET Core prereqs.

Raspberry Pi 4 already had everything. You can always try it again.

sudo apt install libc6 libgcc1
sudo apt install libgssapi-krb5-2 libssl1.1 libstdc++6 zlib1g libicu63

b. Download latest ASF release

For Raspberry Pi 4, I got ASF-linux-arm.zip.
Technically, ASF-linux-arm64.zip would work, but Raspberry PI 4 OS 64-bit (as of Oct 3, 2021), isn't stable yet.

c. Extract the archive.

From the home folder:
$ unzip ASF-linux-arm.zip -d ArchiSteamFarm

d. Configure ASF

We now need to make a json config file with our username, password.

Enter the config folder:
$ cd ArchiSteamFarm/config

Open with nano (the file can be named anything. I named it main.json. You can name it MyAccount.json or whatever.)
$ nano main.json

In the json file - replace this with your stuff.
Then Ctrl+X to save and quit.

{
  "Enabled": true,
  "SteamLogin": "MySteamAccountName",
  "SteamPassword": "MySteamAccountPassword"
}

e. Launch ASF.

Via this reddit post

You have to change permissions on the folder for some reason.

So return to your home folder and chmod it.
$ sudo chmod +x ArchiSteamFarm

Then switch from the pi user to the admin.
$ sudo su

Finally, launch the code.
$ ./ArchiSteamFarm

It'll kick up this screen.

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