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Running the FlowFuse Device Agent as a service on a Raspberry Pi

FlowFuse's device agent allows you to manage and run your Node-RED instances on your own hardware such as a Raspberry Pi. This can be very useful where an application you've written needs to run flows with direct access to hardware sensors.
In this article I'm going to explain the steps to configure our device agent to run as a service in Raspbian OS, or any other OS that uses systemd.
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