Last Updated on April 30, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
- The video only shows camera recording and a heatmap dated 2017.
- The Raspbian version is from the year 2017.
- Does the device not work with a ewer versions?
- The recordings in the video are from the year 2017, but the video was released a view day ago.
- Is there any new substance in it?
- The only new thing we can see that it runs a 2017 version of Raspian, but id does not show how it performs.
- The device can compete with the Raspberry Pi 3 on Ricardo Switzerland as far as it´s price is concerned.
- The device has to proof that it can compete with a Raspberry Pi on the software site, for instance by installing Armbian on it, and demonstrate it s function with LibreOffice and Chromium as shown here:
issues:
- we miss usb3 connectivity
- the YouTube demo shows camera images of heat on the SBC motherboard
- We miss a performance demo of the Raspbian OS.
- we we miss a proof that apps run on the device under Raspberry Pi OS.
- If apps do not work on Raspberry Pi OS, is it not better to choose another OS as for instance Armbian?
- The Bananapi M2U is listed as supported by Armbian:
- There are forum entiries for the Banana Pi M2 Berry in the Armbian forum:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4864-banana-pi-m2-berry/
- The last entry was on on 26. Juni 2018, then the forum was locked.
- On these low power devices, it is highly desirable to have a light-weight Linux distribution such as Armbian which runs on it.
- We miss a proof of function of Armbian running on the The Banana Pi BPI-M2 Berry.