installing MagicMirror on my Raspberry Pi 0 w2

sdetweil

@Y_Garden I solved the installing correct version of node problem.

The reboot is happening inside npm, none of our code
Maybe a heat or power problem?
2w is short on ram, and trixie is bigger

emlowe

My experience trying to run MM on a system with 512MB of RAM is really poor. I found it pretty frustrating really.

sdetweil

@emlowe yes, and the later os images are getting bigger and bigger

emlowe

@sdetweil I did find dietPi (https://dietpi.com/) to be the best distro for ease of installation, generally small, and still up to date - they keep up to date with Debian

RonR

I’m not sure you will be able to do that easily. I’m trying to get a browser to load on a PI zero 2 W because Firefox and Chrome take up too much room to fit in the tiny 512MB Ram. Even running ssh and not using the GUI it is taking close to an hour to install Midori but that may be their server because other things have worked much faster.

Good Luck with your project.

Y_Garden

@emlowe
@sdetweil

Ah… 2W is the worst… I’ll try again with dietpi and use this 2W for something else. I’ll try connecting it to a better Raspberry Pi. Thank you.

Y_Garden

@RonR

Thank you.

I will upgrade my Raspberry Pi model to a wallet.