FYI... Weewx working on an Orange Pi Zero.

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James Muirhead

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Jun 30, 2019, 8:35:33 AM6/30/19

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Just thought I'd let folks know. WeeWX works just fine on an Orange Pi Zero (256MB RAM version) using the Armbian Stretch image. Weather station is a Fine Offset WH1080 (purchased from Clas Ohlson) connected via USB.

System uses 86MB of RAM total. I've got lighttpd installed as my local web server. Also uploading to WOW, Wunderground & FTP.

Decided to use this because they're little and they have 2 ports (Ethernet & USB), plus, they're about £10.

http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/

https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/

-James Muirhead.

PS - Please, no comments on how I'm against Raspberry Pi, I have about 15 Raspberrys (no 4B yet), 2 Bananas & 2 Oranges! I'm an equal opportunity SBC buyer! I buy based on what I need it to do and a reasonable budget for that.

James Muirhead

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Jul 23, 2019, 8:46:33 PM7/23/19

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I've had to give up on the Orange Pi Zero with 256MB of RAM as it just clogged the RAM completely after about a month! To the point it started to use the swap :'(

Swapped to an Orange Pi PC as I had one spare and it has 1GB of RAM.... Plus, it's cheep (£16)!