[PSUBS-MAILIST] I've got a Potato in my sub

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Hi Jon,

thanks for reporting back on your experiences there.

I've also played around with the Raspberry Pi as the main interface for sub controls and monitoring.  Rather than go using a standard desktop distribution I built my own based on the Automotive Grade Linux (), which is making its way into many car brands.  Here's a shot of the UI with mocked up data: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YLqRpgRkBHLrrb3W8 (https://www.automotivelinux.org/)

Its a low priority upgrade, but it would be nice to have a Tesla/SpaceX type user interface.

Cheers,
  Ian.



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Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] I've got a Potato in my sub

Le Potato, to be specific.  It's a potential SBC replacement for the Raspberry Pi which is still difficult to obtain here in the USA due to chip shortages causing prices of the PI to soar over $100.  At $35 the Potato has the same form-factor but a 64 bit processor as well as some other hardware upgrades that match or exceed the Raspberry Pi.  Last year I spent many frustrating hours trying to get the Potato to work with a USB WIFI and configured as necessary to interface with my sensor inputs.  This year a new OS revision has resolved all those issues and I have gotten the Potato configured as necessary rather easily using UBUNTU 22.04, making it a potential alternative to the PI.  The only real negative I ran into was that it comes with GNOME desktop which is way too bulky, fat, and slow for the 2GB of memory that comes on the Potato board.  I resolved that by installing Xfce instead which is a light-weight no frills GUI desktop.
 
https://libre.computer/products/aml-s905x-cc/
 
 
Jon



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