Ensure compatibility with non-Raspberry Pi ARM-based systems

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Summary

To improve portability and ensure compatibility across a broader range of ARM-based systems, support and testing need to be extended beyond Raspberry Pi devices. While the project currently functions on Raspberry Pi OS (a Debian-based ARM environment), other ARM platforms may differ in architecture, distribution, or system configuration. Ensuring compatibility with a wider variety of ARM-based environments will improve usability in embedded, cloud, and edge-compute scenarios.

Previous testing has shown that the project can run successfully on ARM-based AWS instances, but this needs to be further verified, and additional checks may be required in the setup scripts to support non-RPi ARM environments reliably.

Task Details

• Identify and document supported ARM platforms beyond Raspberry Pi.
• Test installation and runtime behaviour on at least one non-Raspberry Pi ARM system.
• Ensure compatibility with both 32-bit (ARMv7) and 64-bit (ARM64/AArch64) environments where feasible.
• Address any architecture-specific issues that arise (e.g., compiler flags, OpenSSL behaviour, memory alignment).
• Verify compatibility with common ARM Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu ARM, Arch Linux ARM, Alpine ARM).
• Update documentation to reflect supported ARM platforms and any additional setup notes.