Running on Pi Zero 2 W?

sdetweil · Oct 30, 2021, 9:50 PM

@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

karsten13 · Oct 30, 2021, 10:30 PM

@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/

undeterred · Oct 31, 2021, 5:38 AM

@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.

musson · Oct 31, 2021, 5:13 PM

@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.

sdetweil · Oct 31, 2021, 5:19 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)

sdetweil · 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.

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