Orange Pi, or Atom CPU running Octoprint
Is there a performance benefit using the Orange pi over a raspberry pi3? 🙂 I have a raspberry pi w zero ready but after hearing the " lack of processing power" that can be affecting the printing when running the camera feature on a single core CPU?
or the http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fit-pc2/ its an older unit. but I think the pie zero has comparable specs?
Re: Orange Pi, or Atom CPU running Octoprint
A raspberry pi 3 is plenty. I've been running one over USB for a week, including with octolapse, and haven't had a single print failure.
Re: Orange Pi, or Atom CPU running Octoprint
I have yet to experience any performance issues effecting printing while using the camera and a Pi Zero. The CPU usually sets around 60% with the camera on. Even when I goof with it and beg the CPU, prints aren't effected. A Pi2 is plenty of power, and Pi3 is loads of extra power. Anything more is just wasting cycles, unless you are planning on doing graphical slicing inside Octoprint, which has always seemed kind of silly to me.
Re: Orange Pi, or Atom CPU running Octoprint
I have yet to experience any performance issues effecting printing while using the camera and a Pi Zero. The CPU usually sets around 60% with the camera on. Even when I goof with it and beg the CPU, prints aren't effected. A Pi2 is plenty of power, and Pi3 is loads of extra power. Anything more is just wasting cycles, unless you are planning on doing graphical slicing inside Octoprint, which has always seemed kind of silly to me.
A raspberry pi 3 is plenty. I've been running one over USB for a week, including with octolapse, and haven't had a single print failure.
thank you, Neil and Scott, for the responses.