Running on Pi Zero 2 W?

musson · Oct 31, 2021, 5:21 PM

@sdetweil ok, trying desktop now.

sdetweil · Oct 31, 2021, 5:25 PM

@musson mine doesnt come til tuesday

musson · 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.

sdetweil · 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

musson · Oct 31, 2021, 5:43 PM

@sdetweil Its working with the desktop version!!!

Thanks for you help and comments.

SmartReflectons · Oct 31, 2021, 6:07 PM

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

musson · Oct 31, 2021, 7:33 PM

@smartreflectons Its quite responsive.

sdetweil · 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/

sdetweil · Nov 2, 2021, 3:16 PM

actually PI os 64 bit now shows aarch64, as does ubuntu on pi. (and jetson nano as I recall)…

Lofty73 · Nov 2, 2021, 4:48 PM

I am running it a Pi Zero 2W and it seems ok
New to the Magic mirror scene so still learning but up and running on an old 19" toshiba TV