After some messing around as the very latest version did not have WIFI installed AT ALL by the look of it. Well, the script all worked, no problem – nice little board but the WIFI just would not work reliably – WIFI is necessary so that it can be used as a place-anywhere peripheral – I remain convinced the better bet is the FriendlyArm product UNLESS you’re planning to use hardwired.Īnd that started off a WHOLE conversation in here which led to trying XENIAL (Armbian version). This is a nice, cheap board, cheaper than the Air but I would not want to swap. Now bear in mind when I did a review of the WIFI only FriendlyArm NanoPi Air I commented how much faster the eMMC was – well of course you don’t have that option here. If you’ve read some recent posts I’ve been playing with a VM version of Debian that loads my script up in 18 minutes – well, the Orange Pi Zero isn’t quite like that – it’s nearly done now and at 1 hr 20 minutes – not stunningly fast but no worse than a Raspberry Pi 2.
peripherals for dotting around the house – and so the WIFI absolutely must work. The thing is – I see these cheap boards as upmarket ESP8266s, i.e. My script loaded without apparent issue, on the Ethernet connection.
I had several attempts at this with a clean SD each time and for now I’ve given up. The board connected up no problem – I went into the setup and set up the WIFI – it found my access point and connected. Ultimately I chickened out and plugged in an Ethernet lead (there’s a long story of broken leads here but we’ll put that to one side). Well, I failed – no-where on the network could we find the board despite setting it up correctly. This board has both Ethernet and WIFI but I wanted to go in at the deep end. I loaded up the DietPi software and there is a text file on the SD you can go in and setup WIFI etc. I installed DIET PI – which has worked so well elsewhere and in this case you really are counting on the operating system working from day one because there is no video output. But whether it is the BOARD or the SOFTWARE I’m not yet sure. Well, I’ve started and up to now I’m not stunningly impressed. This is not a high end board but it REALLY is cheap so I had to see it working.
With that in mind I’ve been looking forward to getting an Orange Pi Zero. Those of you who read my stuff will know that I’ve never been impressed by the Orange Pi boards – the utter lack of communication from the company really is stunning and initially the boards used to get very hot – but then came Armbian and all that changed – third party support and lots of info.
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