Bricksync & Raspberry Pi

ElyBricks

I have been trying unsuccessfully to run Bricksync on a Raspberry Pi. Does anybody know if it is possible?

I have the RPi4 and I have tried Raspbian with a 64bit kernel, Gentoo 64bit and various others. However, whenever I try to run BrickSync
I get the error "cannot execute binary file: Exec format error".

If anybody can help me with this it would be much appreciated.

unbrickable

hi do not know the exact answer for this, maybe you can try to ask the question on stackoverflow ?

ElyBricks

Having done some more research I think the source code will need to be compiled especially for the raspberry pi.

brickrepository

Compiling the source for the Pi would have been my suggestion. Will you share your experience with that, as I am considering doing something similar? Thanks.

ElyBricks

I have been trying to compile it but it’s throwing up too many errors and I don’t have sufficient knowledge to solve them.

brick-n-it

Hey, im not sure if this is of any help but if you are wanting to run bricksync on something other than your computer (so you dont have to leave it on) I run mine on a microsoft azure computer on the cloud. I just chose the cheapest one they do as its only running bricksync. Runs amazing and costs me around £6 a month.

Calibrick

That is super clever, @brick-n-it!

brickrepository

Exactly the same I'm doing @Brick-n-it

One advantage of this approach is that the internet connection is more stable than my home connection.

My cost comes to just over €10 a month, thinking of trying Amazon AWS to see if it comes out cheaper (it's almost impossible to know the cost of one of these cloud solutions ahead of time).

ElyBricks

I’ve been keeping a look out for a secondhand 64bit pc stick that I could install Linux and then the pre-compiled Bricksync on as another solution.

I have never used the cloud solutions so I shall have a look into that too.

Thank you all for your responses.

Geert Middelman

Thanks for the tip on Azure... I will have a look at that this weekend. Currently I have an old mac mini running, but I bet it uses more than 7 dollar a month on power...

Azure is easy to set up?

brick-n-it

It seemed pretty straightforward, but i used to work as an IT engineer. Its worth giving it a go. My internet is terrible at home so i couldnt do without it.