Running on Pi Zero 2 W?

[sdetweil]

@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.

[musson]

@sdetweil ok, trying desktop now.

[sdetweil]

@musson mine doesnt come til tuesday

[musson]

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]

@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]

@sdetweil Its working with the desktop version!!!

Thanks for you help and comments.

[SmartReflectons]

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

[musson]

@smartreflectons Its quite responsive.

[sdetweil]

great power analysis of pi2w

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

[sdetweil]

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