[Info] Raspberry pi alternative -- Rpanion running on Libre Computer Le Potato

[tmarkson]

Since Raspberry Pi are expensive and hard to obtain, I can mention that Rpanion is running well on Le Potato, 2 GB RAM version.

Rpanion was an easy setup -- thanks for the effort Steven! This one is using Wireguard via 4G USB modem.

It's about $40 via Amazon Prime here in USA. The product page is here: https://libre.computer/products/aml-s905x-cc/

This one is using Bullseye for the s905 chip, you can get the OS image.
Initial setup with a monitor+keyboard. Setup info here https://distro.libre.computer/ci/raspbian/11/2023-05-03-raspbian-bullseye-arm64%2Baml-s905x-cc.img.xz

CPU average 0.5 on a quad core while streaming UDP and TCP.

Funny enough, a Raspi 4 and Le Potato weigh less than a Pi zero 2 with power hat and USB OTG cable.

Note: the Rpanion user was not allowed to access the serial device. I see the npm service user is root, which owns the serial device. A quick fix was to add a udev rule for that serial device to chmod 666 the serial device. Now the permission is updated after boot and Rpanion automatically starts serving telemetry. Really great!

[stephendade]

Great! Good to have more boards compatible.

Could you do a PR to:

• Mention the board compatibility in README.md
• Add a script in the deploy folder to add the udev rules

[tmarkson]

Updated readme in #149. Don't want to break something with a new script so I added a link to site with instructions