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Run OpenClaw on a $50 Raspberry Pi for a dedicated 24/7 assistant that costs pennies in electricity. Perfect for home automation, monitoring, and always-available access.

Hardware Requirements

• Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB+) or Pi 5 recommended
• 32GB+ microSD card (Class 10 or better)
• Official power supply (stable power critical)
• Ethernet recommended for reliability

Setup Steps

# 1. Flash Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) to SD card
# 2. SSH in and install Node.js 22+
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

# 3. Install OpenClaw globally
sudo npm install -g openclaw@latest

# 4. Run onboard wizard with daemon flag
openclaw onboard --install-daemon

# 5. Verify it's running
openclaw status

Pro Tips

• Use openclaw doctor to verify all components
• Set up Tailscale for secure remote access
• Enable swap file for stability with larger models
• Consider Claude Haiku for lower costs on Pi

Set up OpenClaw as your personal market research assistant. It monitors prices, scans for opportunities, summarizes news, and alerts you to important moves — all through your preferred chat app.

What It Does

• Monitor token prices and alert on thresholds
• Scan DEX screeners for new listings
• Summarize crypto Twitter and news
• Track portfolio performance daily
• Research tokens on demand

Example Commands

# Set up a price alert
"Alert me when BTC drops below $95k or rises above $105k"

# Morning briefing via cron job
"Every day at 8am, summarize overnight crypto news and my portfolio changes"

# Research a token
"Research $PEPE - tokenomics, holders, recent activity, sentiment"

# Market scan
"What tokens had the biggest volume spike in the last 4 hours?"

Setup

This uses OpenClaw's cron jobs for scheduled monitoring and browser automation for scraping DEX screeners. No special skills needed — just natural language commands.

Control your entire smart home through natural conversation. Works with Home Assistant, controlling lights, locks, thermostats, cameras, and more — all from Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord.

What You Can Do

• "Lock all the doors and turn off the lights"
• "Set the thermostat to 72 degrees"
• "Is the garage door open?"
• "Turn on movie mode" (triggers a scene)
• "Show me the front door camera"

Home Assistant Skill Setup

# Install the homeassistant skill
openclaw skill install homeassistant

# Add to your TOOLS.md for device context
## Home Assistant
- URL: http://homeassistant.local:8123
- Token: [your long-lived access token]

### Devices
- light.living_room - Living Room Lights
- lock.front_door - Front Door Lock
- climate.main - Main Thermostat
- camera.front_porch - Front Porch Camera

Custom Commands

Create custom "scenes" in your AGENTS.md or TOOLS.md:

### "Lock It Down" Command
When I say "lock it down":
1. Lock all doors (front, back, garage)
2. Turn off all lights except entry
3. IF after sunset → keep porch light on
4. Confirm all states

Transform inbox chaos into organized action. OpenClaw reads, sorts, and summarizes your email, manages your calendar, and syncs everything to Notion — automatically.

Daily Briefing Setup

Set up a morning briefing via cron job that runs at 7am:

# In chat, set up the daily briefing:
"Every morning at 7am, send me:
1. Today's calendar events
2. Unread emails that need attention (skip newsletters)
3. Weather forecast
4. Top 3 priorities from my Notion tasks"

Email Automation

# Inbox management commands
"Summarize my unread emails from the last 24 hours"
"Unsubscribe me from all newsletter emails"
"Draft a reply to the email from [sender] saying I'll follow up next week"
"Move all promotional emails to trash"

Skills Used

Debug code, review PRs, monitor CI pipelines, and push commits — all from your phone. OpenClaw acts like a junior developer who's always on call.

Real Workflow Examples

# Debug an error from your phone
"I'm getting this error: [paste error]. What's wrong?"

# Git operations
"Create a new branch called feature/login-fix and commit current changes"
"What's the status of my latest PR?"
"Run the test suite and tell me if anything fails"

# Code generation
"Create a simple Express API with user authentication"
"Add error handling to the function in src/utils/parser.ts"

GitHub Integration

# Using the github skill
openclaw skill install github

# Commands
"List my open PRs"
"What CI checks failed on PR #42?"
"Create an issue: Login button not working on mobile"

Manage your content pipeline, track mentions, summarize comments, and schedule posts across platforms.

YouTuber Workflow

# Daily content tasks
"Summarize comments on my latest video — any questions I should answer?"
"Track mentions of my channel name on Twitter today"
"Draft a community post announcing my next upload"
"What are the top trending topics in my niche right now?"

Social Media Management

# X/Twitter automation with bird skill
"Schedule a tweet for 3pm: [content]"
"What did @competitor post this week?"
"Generate 5 tweet ideas about [topic]"

Add OpenClaw to a family group chat for shared reminders, schedule coordination, and household task management.

How It Works

• Set up a WhatsApp group with family + OpenClaw
• Anyone can ask for reminders or schedule events
• Tracks who's picking up kids, grocery lists, appointments
• Sends daily/weekly family schedule summaries

Example Interactions

# Family member asks:
"@bot remind everyone about soccer practice at 4pm Saturday"

# Shopping list management:
"@bot add milk and eggs to the grocery list"
"@bot what's on the grocery list?"

# Schedule coordination:
"@bot who's picking up the kids tomorrow?"
"@bot what's our schedule for this weekend?"

A native OpenClaw plugin that gives your agent long-term memory with knowledge graphs. Memories persist across sessions, channels, and agents.

What Makes It Different

• Hybrid search — BM25 + vector + graph traversal (not just vibes-based similarity)
• 24 relationship types connecting memories into actual knowledge graphs
• Context checkpoints for session handoff between agents
• 4-5x faster than MCP — direct HTTP, no proxy layer

Install

openclaw plugins install openclaw-penfield
openclaw penfield login
openclaw gateway restart

Also works outside OpenClaw — Claude Connectors, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, anything MCP-compatible.

OpenClaw moderates and manages a Discord server, with smart escalation — important events trigger a text, super important events trigger an actual phone call.

The Escalation System

• Low priority — Handled automatically, logged for review
• Medium priority — Sends a text message to the owner
• High priority — Actually calls you on the phone

How to Build This

• Set up Discord channel with moderation permissions
• Use Twilio skill for SMS/voice calls
• Define priority rules in SOUL.md (what's text-worthy vs call-worthy)
• Let the agent learn your preferences over time

Created a "council" where multiple AI models vote each other out until a group of 4 survivors agree on solutions. After 60 requests, OpenClaw runs fully autonomous and creates skills on the fly.

How It Works

• Initialize with all models from synthetic.dev catalog
• Present a problem to the council
• Models propose solutions and vote on each other
• Losers get eliminated until 4 remain
• Survivors must reach consensus

Use Cases

• Complex decision-making that benefits from multiple perspectives
• Code review with diverse model opinions
• Creative brainstorming with automatic filtering
• Research synthesis from multiple AI viewpoints