10 million Raspberry Pi's sold...

Sep 08, 2016 46 Replies
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Running Raspbx on Pi zero to see if it can handle it, seems to work fine, originally setup on PI2B and then card put into Zero, few oddities originally, but sorted those out.

Have it connected to Sipgate, friends Raspbx setup similar to mine, he has PI2B, and to BT line using Grandstream HT-503 in my work shop, plus Linksys unit to BT line at home, plus extensions.

Calls to workshop also ring home and vice versa.

Works very well, so when abroad or alternate location can use softphone, or hard phone and make/get calls from UK.

Using with a USB to ethernet with 3 port hub bough from ebay, had a usb C type plug , so cut and splice cable to fit Zero - recognised immediately. item number 162049671280 USB to LAN Adapter USB-C RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Network 3 USB 3.0 Port Hub

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I've looked a bit because the app I mainly run on them, a distributed home automation system, runs just fine on the original 256MB Pi, and doesn't need anything more powerful, so the new ones seem like a bit of a waste.

A Pi zero would do, but then I would have to add networking.

Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
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I've looked a bit because the app I mainly run on them, a distributed home automation system, runs just fine on the original 256MB Pi, and doesn't need anything more powerful, so the new ones seem like a bit of a waste.

A Pi zero would do, but then I would have to add networking.

Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
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I've ordered ebay item 252215005485. I has a micro USB plug and seems to be thought well of. Time will tell.

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Yes, they make nice peripherals for the rPi.

This is how a lot of the programming adapters work. In fact, there are MCU devices preprogrammed to support I2C, SPI, JTAG, etc.

And an rPi.

Rick C
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Or a user interface or an onboard development system or a camera interface or idiot easy USB or don't wish to build hardware...

There are few "problems" that can't be dealt with by an rPi. Nothing is a universal solution, but the various rPis cover a great many applications.

I remember over a decade ago a trade magazine had an article on the future of embedded hardware. They talked about embedding Linux in your toaster as a joke, but at $5 there is little reason to use anything else when homebrewing toasters, lol.

Rick C
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If your app required it, yes. But for $3 it can be added easily.

Rick C
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