guysoft
RPi alternatives?
The image at the moment is build only for RaspberryPi. I was in talks with @libre-computer-project to see if we could also support their boards, but at the moment I have no boards to test with. I will gladly talk to any other hardware vendors about additional support.
I will test on my libre computer "le potato" tonight. I don't have a compatible touch screen but will confirm other functions work as expected. Their portability tool is actually pretty good.
Okay, so I have confirmed functionality with Libre's "le potato" using the portability tool (Used a mouse and screen since I don't have a compatible touchscreen at the moment). If I can figure out how to use the CustomPiOS I will try to build an Armbian version for the BananaPi zero that I have.
Cool. this tool right? https://github.com/libre-computer-project/libretech-raspbian-portability
That's the one. It auto coverts most Raspbian images (Things using NOOB don't work). From what I've looked into it, it seems to update the kernel and a few other files needed to boot. I wish all pi alternatives had this tool.
The Portability tool worked for me as well to convert. It’s just weird and slightly annoying that you have to stick the SD card in a real pi first to do the conversion. Wish there were an easy to way to automate that into builds.
Would love to see this ported to Libre as well. Can we donate to get a board in your hands?
I bought a couple of Libre Renegades but so far every RPi project I had hoped to use them with seems to have RPi-specific software libraries that require an actual RPi.
I am looking in to adding support for @librecomputer since they sent me hardware to test. Its in progress.
Excellent. I was coming on here to offer one of mine - happy to hear it!!
I also tried the portability tool, and it works - but over the last few months of testing, Chromium on the le potato I'm using keeps crashing after a few days with an 'Aw, Snap!' error. I've had 2 incidents where Chromium was just frozen (the page has a clock and it froze).
Might just be me / I may have not done things correctly - but there might be a need to run fullpageos on a le potato for a while to make sure something isn't leaking / wrong, since everything seems OK at boot time.
Mine reliably crashes every 3-4 days, so I'll for sure overwrite the SD card with whatever you come up with and see if things change.
@guysoft how has the 'le potato' testing been going? Is there anything we can do to help?
I've started writing a multi device build for OctoPi. When that works I can add that to FullPageOS. Thanks for asking because that lets me know its needed here too.
Progress is at: https://github.com/guysoft/OctoPi/tree/ci-orange/config
Great to see - I wouldn't be surprised to see an uptick in the projects, due just to the availability of hardware!
@guysoft it seems like this is ready for testing, based on what I see here: https://github.com/guysoft/CustomPiOS
Or a I reading that wrong?
Its not fullu ready yet. However if you are ready to test i can try make time for it
I'm happy to help in any way I can! I've got a half-dozen le potatoes ready for the baking
Anything I can help test? I still have a pile of Le Potato devices available.
Anything I can help test? I still have a pile of Le Potato devices available.
Same here, I have Le Potatoes and Renegades that I can re-purpose to test.
Related, this is effort to add support for this: https://github.com/guysoft/CustomPiOS/issues/214
I could convert this to a discussion, but not sure I should. Depends what @MKaidan prefers.
Any updates on finishing a build process for librecompute and other boards?
I tried to follow the build instructions for custompiOS but got lost. However, I have many potatoes I can test with if someone else can make a build for them.
EDIT: The portability script no longer works with the latest nightlies because LibreCompute doesn't support Bookworm/12 yet.
Hey, 1. There is progress. Its taking longer because it became part of CustomPiOS v2. Which I've been working on: https://github.com/guysoft/CustomPiOS/issues/214 2. I can make a variant for LibreComputer but didn't get an answer to which base image to use: https://github.com/guysoft/CustomPiOS/issues/214#issuecomment-1951057150 3. @Yukigamine What portability script are you using? If I can take a look at that I can get bullseye support still going. Also if you can figure out what base image to use that would help me greatly getting it to work, perhaps even now in the CustomPiOS v2 branch that is here: https://github.com/guysoft/CustomPiOS/tree/feature/meta-modules
Portability script is here: https://github.com/libre-computer-project/libretech-raspbian-portability Not sure why, but libre-compute haven't bothered updating it for bookworm.
Glad to hear about the progress with CustomPiOSv2! Excited to give it a try when you start rolling it out.
As for a base image, it looks like slipstream supports all of the basics, so it seems like it might be easiest to just use Raspbian or Debian since that is what is already most commonly used in the stack?