Deploy Openclaw

I buy this raspberry pi 5 for fun!

It is raspberry pi 5 + 8 GB with AI kit and SSD kit. It make this raspberry pi can support 256GB storage.

Raspberry pi support boot up from SSD which make raspberry pi faster than SD card.

In picture left side(blue tape) is Hailo 8 AI chip, right side is M.2 SSD. I find this board from Taobao.

OpenClaw

This raspberrypi in the past is use for backup my code. But now the Openclaw is exist, I think it really good to use raspberry pi to deploy Openclaw as my home AI assistance.

Openclaw

The idea of Openclaw is make an AI agent can host on computer which mean control the system directly like run command, write program, etc..

But keep in mind that this is danger, so run the Openclaw in isolate machine. Thats the main reason why I think raspberry pi is good choice for openclaw.

Noticed that Openclaw is like a gateway that connect between Channel(Message Input/Output) and LLM (Agent). It’s not the AI itself. So we need to choose and config LLM model.

Currently I choose Alibaba Qwen-max.

An official document told you how to config Qwen with OpenClaw:

https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/tc/model-studio/openclaw

Install and config openclaw is simple. You can easily to follow the document to deploy.

Calling API and Cronjob

After all as I mention before the power of this thing is an AI can control the computer.

For example, I can make AI to call the API using curl command directly:

Openclaw provide a internal cronjob system. We can setup cronjob by command:

openclaw cron add \
  --name "Reminder" \
  --at "2026-02-01T16:00:00Z" \
  --session main \
  --system-event "Reminder: check the cron docs draft" \
  --wake now \
  --delete-after-run

Or we can ask AI to set a cronjob directly: