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Running on Pi Zero 2 W?

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    sdetweil @musson
    last edited by sdetweil Oct 31, 2021, 5:19 PM Oct 31, 2021, 5:14 PM

    @musson chromium is installed on the full desktop (which is required because the browser draws graphics)

    but the script only sets up for chromium if the electron install fails(sometimes on x86) , or is not available…(armv6l)

    this should be same as pi3…(armv7l)

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      sdetweil @musson
      last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:17 PM

      @musson mm never works with lite version

      from the doc , under requirements

      NOTE
      
      To run Electron, you need a desktop environment.
      Using a Lite Version of Raspbian will not work.
      

      Sam

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        musson @sdetweil
        last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:21 PM

        @sdetweil ok, trying desktop now.

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          sdetweil @musson
          last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:25 PM

          @musson mine doesnt come til tuesday

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            musson
            last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:26 PM

            At one point I had MagicMirror working on a lite version, I installed X11 and Chromium but when Electron updated and needed a node.js version that didn’t work on the arm6 CPU I gave up and used a pi 4.
            I want to free up the pi 4 and am hoping I can use the new pi zero 2w for MagicMirror.

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              sdetweil @musson
              last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:29 PM

              @musson said in Running on Pi Zero 2 W?:

              MagicMirror working on a lite version, I installed X11 and Chromium

              well, thats not lite really!..

              reports are its 5x faster than pi 0… same as pi 3
              don’t remember how much memory on board…

              make sure to increase the swap space…
              and maybe run off a USB SSD (I boot most of mine from sd card, but run from ssd…

              TGW (Total Gigabytes Written, measure of SSD memory capacity usage) on micro SD is pretty low

              Sam

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                musson @sdetweil
                last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:43 PM

                @sdetweil Its working with the desktop version!!!

                Thanks for you help and comments.

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                  SmartReflectons @undeterred
                  last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 6:07 PM

                  @undeterred I should receive mine next week and look forward to building a mirror to check performance.

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                    musson @SmartReflectons
                    last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 7:33 PM

                    @smartreflectons Its quite responsive.

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                      sdetweil
                      last edited by Nov 2, 2021, 12:45 PM

                      great power analysis of pi2w

                      https://hackaday.com/2021/11/01/the-pi-zero-2-w-is-the-most-efficient-pi/

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