Starting a Synapse/Matrix server on Raspberry Pi
Synapse is a reference “homeserver” implementation of Matrix. In this article, I will show step by step how to install a Matrix server on a Raspberry Pi model B (1 generation) with Raspbian Buster. In my setup, the username of the Raspberry Pi user is pi, and the home directory is /home/pi. For more information, see Matrix-Element : How to install the Synapse-Matrix - Raspberry PI - Rock 64 Server. Synapse/Matrix service installation Install the necessary packages: sudo apt -y install build-essential make python3 python3-dev python3-dev python3-virtualenv python3-pip python3-setuptools libffi-dev libpq-dev python3-cffi zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libssl-dev libjpeg-dev python3-lxml virtualenv libopenjp2-7 libtiff5 Project compilation: mkdir -p ~/synapse virtualenv -p python3 ~/synapse/env cd ~/synapse/ source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate pip install --upgrade pip pip install --upgrade setuptools pip install matrix-synapse[all] Generation of the configuration file for synapse-matrix python3 -m synapse.app.homeserver --server-name YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME --config-path homeserver.yaml --generate-config --report-stats=no deactivate Service configuration vim ~/synapse/homeserver.yaml Edit these parameters: ...