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If you are hobbling with a PI it's all about the community support, form factor, low power and the header pins. Hopefully if you are buying a Pi you already hav
by coolliquidcode 3y ago
If you are hobbling with a PI it's all about the community support, form factor, low power and the header pins. Hopefully if you are buying a Pi you already have a specific project in mind.
For example: I use a few zero 2 w's with shairport-sync to make Airplay stereos. I use the header pins to control a relay to turn on and off an audio amp. Pi 4+ would actually work a lot better for this especially when playing audio on multiple of these setups at once. A Lenovo mini pc wouldn't be as easy to hide.
- baz00 3y agoI wouldn't go too far down the "community support" thing with the RPi foundation. Careful if you say anything negative, even in a constructive tone, in case Liz shuts your threads down. I had some problems with brownouts on the RPi 2 and posted a technical thread. It was deleted and my account terminated. There are various reports of this from community refugees who switched to other platforms.
- coolliquidcode 3y agoI guess by community support is if you want to build something you'll find 100 tutorials on how to do it or it will even be part of the GitHub project. I never visit the official forums. These community mods are crazy with the little bit of power given. I had similar issues with arstechnica.com before it became an echo chamber.