Running on RPi

[ahnyerkeester]

LOVE this script! Just what I was looking for. On an RPi 4 running Bookworm, I ran into a problem with Selenium and ChromeDriver setup. The problem is that webdriver-manager does not provide compatible ARM64 ChromeDriver binaries.

Here is how I got it to work.

Before I started your installation instructions, I did:

sudo apt install chromium-browser -y
sudo apt install chromium-driver -y

Then I followed your setup instructions but stopped at Configuration.

cp freedom_settings.remote.example.json ~/.freedom_settings.json worked fine but I had to change part of trigger_freedom_session.py to get it to work with the RPi binaries. I replaced:

else:
    logger.info("Using local ChromeDriver")
    try:
        driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
        logger.info("Used Selenium's built-in driver manager")
    except Exception as local_error:
        logger.warning(f"Selenium's built-in manager failed: {local_error}")
        try:
            from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
            service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install())
            driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
            logger.info("Used webdriver-manager fallback")
        except Exception as wdm_error:
            logger.warning(f"webdriver-manager failed: {wdm_error}")
            try:
                service = Service()
                driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
                logger.info("Used system ChromeDriver")
            except Exception as path_error:
                logger.error(f"All local ChromeDriver attempts failed. Final error: {path_error}")
                raise

with

else:
    logger.info("Using system ChromeDriver at /usr/bin/chromedriver")
    try:
        service = Service("/usr/bin/chromedriver")
        driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
        logger.info("System ChromeDriver initialized successfully")
    except Exception as e:
        logger.error(f"Failed to initialize system ChromeDriver: {e}")
        raise

My change is pretty brute force but I'm sure you can incorporate it more elegantly into your existing section.

After these changes, the rest worked fine.

[Booza1981]

Oh hey. Thanks for the feedback and nice to hear you found it useful. I apologise I've only just seen your comment. I'll try taking a look this weekend incorporating arm64.