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Where will you run Aurono Start?

Aurono evaluates strategies continuously, for live trading, the machine running Aurono Start must stay awake. A sleeping laptop pauses your strategies. Here's how to think about that without overspending.

Use what you have

A Mac laptop or Linux box works for evaluation and light use. Set System Settings → Energy Saver → "Prevent automatic sleeping", keep the lid open, keep it plugged in. Works fine for trying Aurono and for light trading. If you trade often or want always-on confidence, a Pi starter kit (from around €100) is a small one-time cost for always-on peace of mind.

Prefer Apple? A Mac mini (always-on by design, ~€700+) is the no-compromise alternative for the Apple ecosystem.

Recommended Pi setup

Aurono Start runs on both the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Pi 5, any 64-bit model, so if you already own a Pi, use it. Buying one? The easiest route by far is a starter kit.

Easiest: a starter kit

A starter kit bundles the board, case, power supply, heatsink, and a microSD card (often preloaded with Raspberry Pi OS) into one order, so there are no parts to match up and nothing to forget. A Pi 4 kit is plenty for Aurono Start and the cheapest way in: figure roughly €100 to €150 depending on the RAM and how much the kit throws in. A Pi 5 kit costs a bit more (around €150) and gives you extra headroom if you plan to run other tools on the same box. The EU vendors below sell both, and are listed because they're reliable, EU-based, and ship fast.

Prefer to pick the parts yourself?

  • Raspberry Pi 5, 8 GB
  • Samsung Evo Plus 64 GB microSD card
  • Official 27 W USB-C power supply
  • Argon NEO 5 case + heatsink

Budget roughly €150 all-in. Check the vendors below for today's prices: Pi and accessory prices move around.

Trusted EU vendors

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The same Pi can host Home Assistant, Pi-hole, Jellyfin, a Plex server, and more. One small box buys you years of always-on hosting for many tools: Aurono just happens to be the one that paid for it.

Step-by-step install

The animation below walks through all seven steps to get your Pi assembled, flashed, and booted. The written steps pick up from there: SSH in, run the install command, open the dashboard. Total active time: about 10 minutes, most of it waiting for things to write or boot.

  1. 1. Flash Raspberry Pi OS to the microSD card

    Download Raspberry Pi Imager (Mac / Windows / Linux). Plug your microSD card into your laptop, open Imager, then:

    • Choose Device → Raspberry Pi 5 (or 4)
    • Choose OS → Raspberry Pi OS (other) → Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit). "Lite" skips the desktop environment: the Pi runs headless, so a GUI just wastes resources. 64-bit is required; Aurono Start only ships a 64-bit build.
    • Choose Storage → your microSD card

    Click Next. Imager prompts you to apply OS customisation: choose Edit Settings and fill in:

    • Hostname: something easy to remember like aurono. The Pi will be reachable at aurono.local on your network.
    • Username + password: note these down, you'll need them in step 3 to SSH in.
    • Configure wireless LAN: only if you're not plugging the Pi in with an Ethernet cable.
    • Set locale settings: timezone and keyboard layout. Worth doing: log timestamps follow this, and the nightly database backup runs at 03:30 local time.
    • Services tab → Enable SSH with password authentication, required, since the Pi runs without a monitor.

    Click Save, then Yes to apply the settings. Imager writes the card (5-10 minutes).

  2. 2. Boot the Pi

    Insert the microSD card into the Pi. Plug in an Ethernet cable (recommended), or rely on the Wi-Fi you configured above. Connect power.

    Wait about 30 seconds for the first boot to complete.

  3. 3. SSH into the Pi from your laptop

    Open Terminal on your Mac (or Terminal / PowerShell on Windows) and run:

    ssh <username>@<hostname>.local

    Replace <username> and <hostname> with what you set in step 1: e.g. ssh aurono@aurono.local. Enter the password you set.

    If .local doesn't resolve on your network, find the Pi's IP address in your router's admin page and use that instead: ssh aurono@192.168.x.x.

  4. 4. Run the install command

    From the Pi's prompt, paste the install one-liner from the download page. It downloads the install file, unpacks it, and runs sudo ./install.sh: you'll be asked for the password you set in step 1.

    Installation takes about a minute. The script ends by printing an access URL like http://aurono.local:8420 (or http://192.168.x.x:8420 if you used the IP address). Copy that URL.

  5. 5. Open the dashboard

    Paste the printed URL into any browser on the same network. The Setup Wizard launches automatically: it walks you through connecting an exchange, running your first strategy in shadow mode, and (when you're ready) activating a license to enable live trading.

Aurono Start now installs as a background service that survives reboots. Power cycles, network glitches, and crashes don't need manual recovery: systemd restarts the service for you.

Get the install one-liner → Read the full getting-started guide →

Ready to buy?

You can buy Aurono Start now and run it in shadow mode on your laptop while you wait for your Pi kit to arrive. Free shadow mode doubles as the waiting room.

Go to Buy → Or try it for free first →