Last Updated on January 20, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
THE RASPBERRY PI 4
- Is a well established SBC and we suppose it also available on eBay for some time if Raspberry Pi does not sell SBC for private users anymore, if it cannot make enough profit anymore from it:
NextCloudPi
- synchronization between Android phone and PC
Home Assistant
- To do some experiments with it
- InfluxDB Grafana are interesting for physiologist like us
- to attach physiological sensors to se what we can do with those
Raspberry Pi OS with Leepspvideo KDE Plasma built 64
- we did some first test with it and it is quiet user friendly
- We can use it for instance to run Python code on it
PiEEG
- this one of the projects in which ware interested in the most. Especially the following project is one of the projects whe are interested in it the most:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=363167
ORANGE Pi 5
If Raspberry Pi should stop selling SBCs for private users since it cannot make any profit anymore from it we whould choose the OP5.
NextCloudPi
- Works with it as well, but has not yet the community the Pi 4 has.
Home Assistant
- Works with it as well, but has not yet the community the Pi 4 has.
Ubuntu on the OP5
- As a replacement for Raspberry Pi OS with Leepspvideo KDE Plasma built 64
- There are different versions of Ubuntu and which one to choose we do not know.
- All of the Ubuntu versions which are available seem currently not much more than a proof of concept for the OP5 which miss a community of users
An Orange Pi shield & sensors & InfluxDB
- if the Pi 4 should not be available anymore we do not know if PiEEG would be ported to OP5
- We therefore would have to start soldering and coding and build devices from single components and InfluxDB
We would choose a Raspberry Pi 5 or an Orange Pi 5 as our main computer. But we will not choose the Pi 5 and OP5 for the reasons we mentioned previously. We only choose the second latest model from Rasperry Pi. And the Orange Pi 5 is too little developed for us personally
We plan to maintain this journal as a lifetime journey. We are physiologists:
who are working on a private project:
We have no plans for soft- and hardware development. We are Swiss and our market analysis came to the conclusion that it is difficult to make money out of the devices we reviewed here and make a living from it in Switzerland. But we think many of the devices we reviewed are interesting for our society and also for open source developers, YouTube video and demo makers. A challening project would be for instance to attach the sensors we reviewed to a Home Assistant image which can be downloaded and started.