Start Terminal and Run python script on boot

Question

I have been struggling with this all day. My set up is a RPi 3 B, running Raspbian.

I need to simply fulfil the following:

1. Once booted automatically open Terminal
2. cd to/my/directory
3. run_my_script.py
4. After 10 minutes, close terminal (or reboot) and repeat

I have limited knowledge of shell and desktop scripts.

Answer 1

wrote a bash script with folling content:

#!/bin/bash

python3 /path_to_your_script/python_script.py


sudo shutdown -r +10
# or with sleep
sleep(600)
sudo reboot now

r: reboot

+10: 10 minutes

go to:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

and fill in the path to bash script, before the exit 0 statement:

bash /path_to_bash/bash_script.sh &

of course you could do it with python so you would not need a separate bash script

https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html