What is required to add monero node to make freedombox the i2p + monero equivalent of an umbrel? I believe this would bring in the monero community and further the future development of freedombox.
Could you more specify your question? What do you mean by “what is required”?
How do I install full XMR gui and node on freedombox?
I suppose you mean how to implement a XMR node as a Freedombox App? I haven’t looked into the prerequisites for it but as I understand it it all Freedombox Apps rely on the Debian repositories and therefore need to be installable with an apt command.
Sorry for reviving this old thread, but I thought it would be better than to start a new one explaining my experience with Monero and a FreedomBox Pioneer Edition and why it didn’t work out.
TL;DR: Monero is available on Debian repositories but 1 GB of RAM doesn’t seem to be enough, so even if became available it wouldn’t work for a lot of devices.
Long version: Monero provides ARMv7 CLI binaries for GNU/Linux, so I used that instead. I added a command like ./monerod --public-node --p2p-bind-port 18080 --limit-rate-up 2048 --limit-rate-down 8192 --pad-transactions --check-updates update --data-dir /media/root/1_TB_Hard_Disk/FreedomBox/shares/open_share/Monero --bg-mining-enable --bg-mining-miner-target 50 --start-mining monero_address_here --restricted-rpc --detach to start it at reboot to crontab and at first, everything seemed to work fine after setting the right permissions for the data directory.
In fact, to make things easier I downloaded the blockchain from the Monero website. But at some point (when the analysis of the blockchain reached 2020s) the daemon started getting killed repeatedly. I think it’s because the RAM was the limit, and there’s not much one can do about it on a FreedomBox Pioneer Edition – so no own remote node for me. I thought about replacing it with a Raspberry Pi with more memory and a faster CPU but the non free firmware part puts me off, so I hope Olimex will release a more powerful FreedomBox one day.