Anyone tried ROCK PI S?

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sub 10$ 64bit 1.3GHz quad core, not a lot of ram but (256M) .. anyone tried one of these?

looking at specification this would be ideal for octoprint?

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I would not call 256 MB ideal for OctoPrint.

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well for server and plugins I use it should be enough :smiley: ... looking at my orange now ..

root@orangepione:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           496        386        110         13         24        219
-/+ buffers/cache:        141        355
Swap:          248          0        248

that's 167M used by system+running octoprint with all plugins I need so 256 should be ok :slight_smile: .. I'm more interested if cpu would be usable and if that usb+eth are killing the cpu or not

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Nice for some IOT projects but I would definitely not use it für octoprint.
Also I'm not a big rockchip fan but that's more a personal preference.

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have not used them at all ever .. so unrelated to octoprint (ram is def a touch and go here) what you dislike about them .. I'm considering them for other projects too octoprint just came to mind as one possibility

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You only have 110 free out of 496 on the Orange pi...

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Go big RAM or go home (on the Pi alternatives). If I wanted hardly any RAM I'd get an ESP32 or whatever.

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nope, 355 free, linux uses unused ram for disk cache but that's "free memory" as it's available for you if you need it

you can't run linux on esp32 :smiley: ... memory management is non existing, the "blob" for wifi part is ... njah .. just not worth it :smiley: .. I don't normally use raspberies for nothing, especially not for octoprint, I use orange's they work much better imo .. but seen these rock thingis and got interested :smiley:

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But they are one of the very few single board computer which are totally open source not like the raspberry pi or the other fruit pie's

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I wasn't aware of that. That's a big plus.
Maybe I should look into it again :smiley:

Atm I'm waiting for some affordable risc-v single board computers :slight_smile: but I guess that will take some time

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Tom Cubie switched to them when he left cubietech and started raxda limited because he don't wanted to build board on which he have to use binary blobs.

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yes, those https://wiki.radxa.com/ boards are awesome :smiley: .. the 4 comes with 1 to 4G of ram that's plenty :smiley: and can output "any resolution" hdmi (which is a bummer with rpi and opi with some displays)

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Are there any Risc-V boards since it was few years since this comment?

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Are you using any ROCK PI boards with OctoPrint?

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Sorry - I haven't used any other sbc besides of the pi.

But as long as you can run linux on it, you should be able to install OctoPrint.