raspberry-pi alternatives

[papak69]

thanks guys, I will investigate a bit more … udoo looks promising.

@bhepler what do you mean with flush mount kit? any link for that?

@tajno true … i have 2 calendars, weather + forecast, stocks, random image & newsflash + the rpi camera motion sensor … but would hate to remove any of it for sake of more speed …

[tajno]

@papak69

Another way would be to use the servermode - Than add a chromecast to your mirror/screen and open it in a browser with F11 as fullscreen.

Works pretty nice, I’m thinking about to made a hosting on my root servers and provide it over this way to my friends with limited technical knowledge (GIT & Puppet). Is my next project - but first I have to end this one, I’m building a new frame :).

[bhepler]

@papak69 Follow the link in my last post. It should be what you’re looking for.

[alexyak]

Here’s the alternative that you can use:

https://www.amazon.com/MINIX-Fanless-Windows-Dual-Band-Ethernet/dp/B01M1LA8MB/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1479087997&sr=8-15&keywords=Minix

[cowboysdude]

@yawns said in raspberry-pi alternatives:

That kind of depends what you intend to do. Basically you can use every box (spare laptop, full workstation, small devices like raspberry, …) running Windows, Linux or MacOS.
However the raspberry is strong enough for most users, so I’m curious why you are asking for a stronger alternative.
Don’t be to anxious about Linux, once you setup your magicmirror you don’t have to twiddle around with Linux all day long.

I am also looking for a much stronger or should I say powerful board for the mirror. I’m going to be building a 40" mirror that I want to do many things with … the Pi just doesn’t have enough power to handle some of the things I’d like it to do… Also the voice control module works so much better with a more powerful board… I know, I’ve tested it :)

[bhepler]

@cowboysdude Possibly something like the Zotac Zbox? It’s probably overkill. And at that price… it’s more expensive than the rest of your hardware.

[alexyak]

@bhepler it is an overkill. Atom based quad SoC with 4GB RAM should be enough.

[cowboysdude]

@bhepler said in raspberry-pi alternatives:

@cowboysdude Possibly something like the Zotac Zbox? It’s probably overkill. And at that price… it’s more expensive than the rest of your hardware.

I have been looking at that exact box!!! Great minds think alike :)

Was also looking very strongly at this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173128

[A Former User]

@alexyak Only under Windows… It bricks on trying to install Raspbian… I know because it happened to me…

[tajno]

Actually I got the problem that the RAM is filled and the system starts to swap - which made the mirror, obviously very slow.

Does anyone have similiar issues?

A pm2 reload does not really work - The only way is to kill electron and start the mirror again - than it works fine for like 12 hours. I don’t really get what the RAM is filling - Maybe its the iFrame Module? A clean installation will probably not have those problems, think it must be a module…