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    Running on Pi Zero 2 W?

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      undeterred
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      I am interested to know if anyone has successfully run MagicMirror on the new Pi Zero 2?
      I know that electron won’t run on the old Pi Zero, which means that it is hard getting MagicMirror to run successfully on that hardware platform.
      Presumably being arm64 instead of armel (have I got that right?) electron will now work.

      Thanks.

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        sdetweil @undeterred
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        @undeterred I have one on order, should be here next week

        my install script uses server mode with chromium as the browser on pi0w
        see
        https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

        pi0w is armv6l

        pi3/4 are armv7l, in 32 bit mode

        and
        armv8l in 64 bit mode

        I don’t expect any issues running on pi0w-2

        Sam

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          karsten13 @sdetweil
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          @sdetweil said in Running on Pi Zero 2 W?:

          as addition: pi zero 2 is armv7l

          nice article: https://blog.alexellis.io/raspberry-pi-zero-2/

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            undeterred @sdetweil
            last edited by

            @sdetweil Be interesting to read about your experience on installing on the pi0w-2.

            I have a small 4" magicmirror displaying one module at a time using the pi0w. The animations are sometimes laggy however, hence my interest at upgrading the hardware.

            Thanks.

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              musson @undeterred
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              @undeterred I am trying to get it working, just got my pi zero w2 today. doesn’t work using the lite version of pi, trying the desktop version now. Not sure I fully understand how chromium is supposed to be installed by the script.

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                sdetweil @musson
                last edited by sdetweil

                @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)

                Sam

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                  sdetweil @musson
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                  @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
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                    @sdetweil ok, trying desktop now.

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                      sdetweil @musson
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                      @musson mine doesnt come til tuesday

                      Sam

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                        musson
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                        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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