Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Running on Pi Zero 2 W?
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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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@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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@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. -
@sdetweil ok, trying desktop now.
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@musson mine doesnt come til tuesday
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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.
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@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
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@sdetweil Its working with the desktop version!!!
Thanks for you help and comments.
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@undeterred I should receive mine next week and look forward to building a mirror to check performance.
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@smartreflectons Its quite responsive.
