2017-07-07, 08:42 PM
As far as I know, Raspian directly supports the Raspery zero W. Although slower than a pi 3, it seems odd that OpenPlotter should not run on the pi zero W. It would be nice to be able to build a distributed system where a pi zero W could be used to run one or more sensors in one area of the boat without running anything but power (readily available in many cases) to it. Sensor output could be run wireless to the main OpenPlotter computer.
I don't know what the real-life limits are on 1W runs or I2C runs but a larger boat might exceed the run lengths and a remote system would be quite helpful. Of course throwing a bit more money at it in the form of a pi 3 will also do the trick
I don't know what the real-life limits are on 1W runs or I2C runs but a larger boat might exceed the run lengths and a remote system would be quite helpful. Of course throwing a bit more money at it in the form of a pi 3 will also do the trick