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    cowboysdude Module Developer @bhepler
    last edited by cowboysdude Nov 15, 2016, 11:30 PM Nov 15, 2016, 11:21 PM

    @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

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      A Former User @alexyak
      last edited by Nov 17, 2016, 4:42 PM

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

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        tajno
        last edited by Nov 17, 2016, 4:47 PM

        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…

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          alexyak @Guest
          last edited by Nov 17, 2016, 6:16 PM

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

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            A Former User @alexyak
            last edited by A Former User Nov 17, 2016, 7:11 PM Nov 17, 2016, 7:03 PM

            @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

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              cowboysdude Module Developer
              last edited by Nov 17, 2016, 11:13 PM

              Or go with another Linux distro… I installed it on a computer and installed the mirror on it… worked pretty good and MUCH faster :)

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                lolobyte @tajno
                last edited by Jan 25, 2017, 1:54 PM

                @tajno

                do a cron job to restart your raspi every night!

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                  amanzimdwini @cowboysdude
                  last edited by Feb 21, 2017, 9:33 PM

                  @cowboysdude

                  • any SHORT intro on how to put a MM onto an old laptop with Ubuntu running on it?
                    I have it on two Pis (2 and 3); managed to get it onto a Win10 box - Ubuntu is next :)

                  Thanks

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                    cowboysdude Module Developer @amanzimdwini
                    last edited by Feb 22, 2017, 2:37 PM

                    @amanzimdwini Installing MM is easy on Unbuntu.

                    I downloaded it and unpacked it into MagicMirror folder then in a terminal window:

                    npm install
                    npm start

                    Starts right up no issues :)

                    Pretty much everything works just as it did on a Pi except it’s a lot faster :)

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                      amanzimdwini @cowboysdude
                      last edited by Mar 2, 2017, 10:33 PM

                      @cowboysdude It was nearly that easy… on LTS 16.04 on an ancient Dell:

                      sudo npm install (failed)
                      sudo apt install nodejs-legacy
                      sudo npm install (succeeded)
                      npm start
                      -> Please create a config.js file

                      Thanks for the help!

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