2020-05-14, 09:03 AM
(2020-05-14, 12:51 AM)seandepagnier Wrote: pypilot can run under tinypilot or openplotter, or many other linux distro but those two are supported.
So the advantage to tinypilot is the raspberry basically only is used to run the autopilot. If the graphics driver in opencpn crashes and openplotter crashes you the separate tinypilot will continue to hold course. There were a few complaints that tinypilot had a better reaction time than openplotter, but I think this is only if the permissions are wrong.
the pi zero uses a lot less power than a pi4. So if you want autopilot with minimal power without charts it could matter.
That makes perfect sense. "Dry testing" PyPilot at the moment but if I ever move it to a boat: I'll make sure it's on it's own RPI