Tinypilot on Pi Zero (non-wifi) to replace ST2000+ controller

[jmj88]

Greetings from New Zealand!

I have been planning to replace the faulty controller of my ST2000+ with Pypilot & intend to do a fully integrated 'headless' setup (inspired by the great work of Ironman) with buttons & screen, running Pypilot on TinyPilot on a Pi Zero.  Due to hardware unavailability I’ve only been able to source a Pi Zero (non-wifi), which I've read is theoretically compatible with Tinypilot.  I'm new to Pypilot & understand I've a steep learning curve ahead (fairly new to Raspberry Pi), but I'm a keen engineer & will do my best to solve problems independently before asking here for support.

My questions are:

• Has anyone successfully run Tinypilot on a non-wireless zero, & if so do you have any advice or could point me to some literature to help me through it?
  
• Any tips for establishing an SSH connection over USB from a PC?  (Win10).  I thought this might be a convenient alternative to Wifi while I get familiar with Pypilot.  I’ve successfully SSH’d into Raspberry Pi OS on the zero, but with the Tinypilot image the hardware is not recognised at all.
  

Thus far, I have loaded the image ‘tinypilot_2021_11_16.img.xz’ & connected a monitor to see what’s going on.  It seems to run but I see a few errors -

insmod: can't insert '/mnt/mmcblk0p2/tinypilot/modules/v7_modules/rc-core.ko': invalid module format
insmod: can't insert [i]'/mnt/mmcblk0p2/tinypilot/modules/v7_modules/lirc_dev.ko': invalid module format[/i]
insmod: can't insert [i]'/mnt/mmcblk0p2/tinypilot/modules/v7_modules/lirc_rpi.ko': invalid module format[/i]
ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
dnsmasq: unknown interface wlan0    This one keeps repeating, obviously related to the non-existent wireless adapter.

Any support greatly appreciated!  Thanks