New Py Zero 2 W is Out!

[GuillaumeM]

Hi Guys,
I hope you are all well!
I'm jumping on the conversation as I've tried to go around everything that has been said but still have some interrogation on whether to base my Pypilot on a Zero W, Zero 2 W or Pi3... Thanks in advance for your enlightments !

I see in Sean's download section : "Pi4/Pi zero 2 (stelian's image) tinypilot13-20211126.img.xz" - First thanks to Stelian for spending time on this.
=> Can we assume that this is now a stable version? 

I'll ask following question depending on the reply I get on this one.

Thanks again

Guillaume

[hans-martijn]

Even with updates from this thread i couldn’t keep the connection from a pi zero 2 stable, and Sean stated that a normal zero is more than enough for pypilot, so I’m reverting back to a normal zero.

-hans

[GuillaumeM]

Even with updates from this thread i couldn’t keep the connection from a pi zero 2 stable, and Sean stated that a normal zero is more than enough for pypilot, so I’m reverting back to a normal zero.

-hans

Thanks Hans for the reply!
I'll let the 2 go then.

[stelian]

As there seem to be some interest in this, I have refreshed my tinypilot13 (based on tinycore 13, so able to run on Pi Zero 2 or Pi 4). It should be equivalent to Sean's latest stable image. The pypilot code is the one in master branch as of today.

You can find it at http://popies.net/pypilot/tinypilot13-20240915.img.xz

[seandepagnier]

Thanks for this! I will be sure to take a look this time. It is my intention to switch to tinycore 13 before making more developments.

[stelian]

FWIW, tinycore 14 is out (with support for PI 5), and tinycore 15 is in beta, so it might be better to switch to one of those in the future.

[Jean-Marc Douroux]

Hello Stelian,

I am using Raspberry Pi Imager v1.8.5 on Windows. I can't install the image from the link you gave above to Pypilot version 2024 on my SD card.
I always get a message "Error extracting archive: Unrecognized archive format.
This problem does not exist with your other 2021 image.
It's a shame because Sean has really improved Pypilot with the stable version of 2024. Can you check why Raspberry Pi Imager can't use this image.

Best Regards

[stelian]

Hello Stelian,

I am using Raspberry Pi Imager v1.8.5 on Windows. I can't install the image from the link you gave above to Pypilot version 2024 on my SD card.
I always get a message "Error extracting archive: Unrecognized archive format.
This problem does not exist with your other 2021 image.
It's a shame because Sean has really improved Pypilot with the stable version of 2024. Can you check why Raspberry Pi Imager can't use this image.

Best Regards

Hi Jean-Marc,

The image is compressed using the xz utility, there is probably some Windows tool able to extract it. Linux does. I think my previous image was also using xz.

Anyway, I will not be able to look further into this issue for about a week because I'm travelling.

Best, Stelian

[seandepagnier]

the program 7zip should be able to extract it on windows

I am going to finally take a look at tinycore 15 and hopefully get a beta image going in 2025.

[Jean-Marc Douroux]

Thanks

After unzipping the .xz file with windows, I finally managed to install the image without errors on the SD card with raspberry pi imager.

Pypilot starts much faster and allows to have the wifi connection in less than 40s instead of about 100s before.
I will look at the impact on consumption. In principle, this should at least double the 12V consumption with 80mA more.

Best, Jean-Marc