stronger Raspberry Pi 3 Alternatives

cowboysdude

Well here’s step 1 for my big mirror… I wanted something stronger then a PI so here is my mini-itx in its new home… Cooling is NOT an issue… it’s about 13" square and about 3 inches tall :) Easy to put out of the way … NOW to build a frame for the ‘display’… Coming soon!

HERE is how it all stays cool…this fan is totally SILENT… LOVE IT!
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835220067

Mykle1

@cowboysdude said in stronger Raspberry Pi 3 Alternatives:

Easy to put out of the way … NOW to build a frame for the ‘display’

Great idea! Now hurry the hell up with the frame! :^)

cowboysdude

@Mykle1 I’m working on it COMING SOON

j.e.f.f

@cowboysdude is the idea that the mini atx sits beside the mirror as opposed to being built? Say on a console table with just an HDMI cable running to the screen?

cowboysdude

@j.e.f.f No it will be underneath as I’m building into a type of desk/cabinet

Snille

All, I have got the Libre Computer now. Trying my best to get the mirror up. Ran in to a small hitch. There is no chromedriver for arm64 yet. They are working on it and there is a PR but it has not yet gone completely through it seems. I’ll see if I can figure it out some how anyway. :)

I’ll come back to this thread as soon as I gotten MM up and running.

stacywebb

@Snille
I’ve gotten it working a Pine Rock64 (arm64 also).

Downloaded electron-v1.7.5-linux-arm64.zip listed under electron’s PR

One thing to note: when downloading from the link, the site’s cert has expired.

From terminal:

// Since the cert for the site has expired (but is safe)

wget --no-check-certificate https://www.hamidx9.ir/dl/electron_arm64/electron-v1.7.5-linux-arm64.zip

// Important make sure to unzip to your electron path

unzip electron-v1.7.5-linux-arm64.zip ~/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/

Once done just started as usual (npm start).

Snille

@stacywebb Thank you! I’ll try it out as soon as I got some time. Have you compared with a Pi3?

stacywebb

@Snille

I haven’t done any benchmarking as of yet. Once I do, I’ll post the results.

Mykle1

@stacywebb said in stronger Raspberry Pi 3 Alternatives:

I haven’t done any benchmarking as of yet. Once I do, I’ll post the results.

If you could do some comparisons using nmon between a Pi3 and the Rock64 I’d really be interested in the results, as they pertain to this topic.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4684/electron-cpu-usage

Otherwise, I’m looking forward to your results on the Rock64.