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Running as a daemon

How to use Specter as a service - launch on boot, start and stop in the background.

  1. Create a file /lib/systemd/system/specter.service with the following content (replace User=myusername to your username):
[Unit]
Description=Specter Desktop Service
After=multi-user.target
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service

[Service]
User=myusername
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -m cryptoadvance.specter server
StandardInput=tty-force

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
  1. Reload systemd with sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  2. Enable service to run on boot with sudo systemctl enable specter.service (optional)
  3. Start service with sudo systemctl start specter.service

To stop run sudo systemctl stop specter.service, to restart sudo systemctl restart specter.service

bitcoind as a service

You can do the same for bitcoind if you want to, then both Specter and bitcoind will start on system boot. To make bitcoind service follow the same steps, just name the service bitcoind.service and set ExecStart=bitcoind there.

Specter with virtual environment

Let's say you don't want to have Specter in you global python modules, but use a virtual environment instead.

First create the virtual environment and install Specter there, let's say the path is /home/myusername/.venv_specter.

Then you need to change the specter.service to the following:

[Unit]
Description=Specter Desktop Service
After=multi-user.target
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service

[Service]
User=myusername
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/myusername/.venv_specter/bin/python -m cryptoadvance.specter server
Environment="PATH=/home/myusername/.venv_specter/bin"
StandardInput=tty-force

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target