{"id":1637,"date":"2020-09-07T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pschatzmann.ch\/home\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2020-11-21T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T21:22:44","slug":"banana-pi-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pschatzmann.ch\/home\/2020\/09\/07\/banana-pi-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"My Banana PI Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.banana-pi.org\/Banana_Pi_BPI-M2_ZERO\">Spec of the Banana PI Zero<\/a>: With it&#8217;s <strong>quad-core Cortex-A7<\/strong> it should have more power then the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/products\/raspberry-pi-zero\/\">Raspberry PI Zero<\/a> &#8211; it should just have more memory!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pschatzmann.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BANANAPI-ZERO-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pschatzmann.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BANANAPI-ZERO-01.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pschatzmann.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BANANAPI-ZERO-01-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nIt is quite easy to set up a Raspberry PI in a way that it starts and automatically connects to the network. So there is no need for any screen or keyboard. I tried to install some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.banana-pi.org\/Banana_Pi_BPI-M2_ZERO#Image_Release\">supported Operating Systems<\/a> on the Banana PI, but either it was <em>not working<\/em> or I ended up with some quite <em>old linux releases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The only promising way forward was to use <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.armbian.com\/\">Armbian<\/a><\/strong> to build my own image: I was able to build a <strong>Debian Bullseye<\/strong> image but this was quite an effort!<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few things however which I am not happy about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Banana PI does not come with a built in <strong>antenna<\/strong> &#8211; so you need to buy one! I could only connect to the WIFI network by moving the machine next to the Hostspot.<\/li>\n<li>I did not find a documented way in Armbian to prepare an image which connects automatically to <strong>wifi<\/strong>. So there is the need to have a <strong>monitor<\/strong>, a <strong>Mini HDMI adapter<\/strong> and a <strong>keyboard<\/strong> to execute the <em>armbian-config<\/em> command. <\/li>\n<li>It is possible to open the Raspberry PI Image in OS\/X after burning it to the SD Card &#8211; this is not possible in Armbian because it uses a Linux file system which is not supported by OS\/X.<\/li>\n<li>I also managed to <strong>destroy the system<\/strong> and leave it in a non bootable state by not powering it down properly!<\/li>\n<li>The are plenty of libraries and a big community which supports the Rasperry PI. It is much more difficult to find any projects that support the Banana PI hardware. So far I found:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/LeMaker\/RPi.GPIO_BP\">RPi.GPIO_BP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/LeMaker\/WiringBP\">WiringBP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finally I am currently <strong>struggling to install bigger projects via pip3<\/strong>: The temp directory is held in memory and this is filling up quite quickly and even &#8211;cache-dir or &#8211;no-cache-dir did not help&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So in a nutshell I might find a suitable project for my Banana PI Zero but I will not use it as replacement for my Raspberry PI Zero &#8211;  there are just too many caveats&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the Spec of the Banana PI Zero: With it&#8217;s quad-core Cortex-A7 it should have more power then the Raspberry PI Zero &#8211; it should just have more memory! 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