raspberry-pi alternatives

[bhepler]

@papak69 Follow the link in my last post. It should be what you’re looking for.

[alexyak]

Here’s the alternative that you can use:

https://www.amazon.com/MINIX-Fanless-Windows-Dual-Band-Ethernet/dp/B01M1LA8MB/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1479087997&sr=8-15&keywords=Minix

[cowboysdude]

@yawns said in raspberry-pi alternatives:

That kind of depends what you intend to do. Basically you can use every box (spare laptop, full workstation, small devices like raspberry, …) running Windows, Linux or MacOS.
However the raspberry is strong enough for most users, so I’m curious why you are asking for a stronger alternative.
Don’t be to anxious about Linux, once you setup your magicmirror you don’t have to twiddle around with Linux all day long.

I am also looking for a much stronger or should I say powerful board for the mirror. I’m going to be building a 40" mirror that I want to do many things with … the Pi just doesn’t have enough power to handle some of the things I’d like it to do… Also the voice control module works so much better with a more powerful board… I know, I’ve tested it :)

[bhepler]

@cowboysdude Possibly something like the Zotac Zbox? It’s probably overkill. And at that price… it’s more expensive than the rest of your hardware.

[alexyak]

@bhepler it is an overkill. Atom based quad SoC with 4GB RAM should be enough.

[cowboysdude]

@bhepler said in raspberry-pi alternatives:

@cowboysdude Possibly something like the Zotac Zbox? It’s probably overkill. And at that price… it’s more expensive than the rest of your hardware.

I have been looking at that exact box!!! Great minds think alike :)

Was also looking very strongly at this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173128

[A Former User]

@alexyak Only under Windows… It bricks on trying to install Raspbian… I know because it happened to me…

[tajno]

Actually I got the problem that the RAM is filled and the system starts to swap - which made the mirror, obviously very slow.

Does anyone have similiar issues?

A pm2 reload does not really work - The only way is to kill electron and start the mirror again - than it works fine for like 12 hours. I don’t really get what the RAM is filling - Maybe its the iFrame Module? A clean installation will probably not have those problems, think it must be a module…

[alexyak]

@wjdw87 of course it wouldn’t run Raspbian because it’s built specifically for RPI. I’d stay with Windows.

[A Former User]

@alexyak sorry, i was not clear. No Linux Distros will install. . they also have android out of the box version and you can change over.

The problem is their jerry rigged bios.

Their android or windows packages at specific to the boxes, no installing of USB/other for they are not built for the boxes

Further the windows is only 32 bit, and the android does have 64 bit, admittedly