I’m just obsessed with computers tbh. I’ll probably use it for Meshtastic.
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I like the form factor more than a laptop, forces me to learn to work with what I have, Handy little debug platform and finally SDR 
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Got a guide on finding flock cameras?
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If I get a CM4 4gb ram and 8gb emmc, will the boot time will be faster if the OS is on the emmc instead of an sd card?
I bought it as a fun little toy to play with an ODB adapter for my car. Then it ended up being my 4g hotspot for the last 4 months. Just bought a radxa cm5 and now I’m using it as a desktop which is surprisingly up to the task.
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Some people say so. But please note that you need either an I/O adapter board or the Hacker Gadget’s CM4/CM5 adapter in order to write to the EMMC on the CM4/5.
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What do you mean? Like, if I want to write the OS to the cm4 emmc from my laptop to the cm4, do I need an adapter, and then once I put in the uconsole, do I need an adapter to read from it?
You can’t write to the CM’s EMMC directly. You either need an I/O board (e.g. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/compute-module-4-io-board/) or the Hacker Gadget’s CM4/5 uConsole adapter. You only need it for writing the initial OS image to the EMMC. However, my knowledge is theoretical, as I have not yet used an EMMC CM myself.
As the EMMc isn’t removable you need a way of communicating with it for flashing images. The Hackergadgets adaptor board is ideal as has a usb3 port just for the EMMc and yes is left in the Uconsole. Have a look half way down this page…
“2. USB-C Port for flashing: Can be used to flash the EMMC version computer module.”
Full kit shown installed here, adaptor board underneath the core module. Note there is an alternative to the top right AIOv2 (radio and satnav) board giving just extermal Ethernet, USB3 and internal access to unused i/o (on the same page)…
Alternative to GPD MicroPC which was a disappointment (stupid design of hinge, dead battery and expensive replacement). It will primarily be used as a carry-on device while on duty.
On the cm4 the emmc is barely faster than the SD card, on the cm5 it’s actually faster
As others have already stated the stock uconsole can’t flash the emmc so you need a different adapter to put the OS on it initially.
Finally emmc compute modules can’t use the sd card because of a design choice raspberry pi made. So if you get emmc you’re going to want more than 8gb of storage.
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Okay. So I’m just going to use my microsd card…
Funny, I’ve also bought it to replace a GPD MicroPC and it does it pretty well (CM5, PCIe SSD)
I also use the same external Keyboard and Monitor for bigger tasks
nope, and im not sure yet if it works.
i grabbed the partial macs from here flock-you/src/main.cpp at main · colonelpanichacks/flock-you · GitHub
and had the clanker translate them to kismet
[~] cat .kismet/device_aliases.conf
# FS Ext Battery devices
device_alias=58:8E:81:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=CC:CC:CC:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=EC:1B:BD:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=90:35:EA:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=04:0D:84:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=F0:82:C0:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=1C:34:F1:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=38:5B:44:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=94:34:69:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
device_alias=B4:E3:F9:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,FS-Ext-Battery
# Flock WiFi devices
device_alias=70:C9:4E:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=3C:91:80:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=D8:F3:BC:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=80:30:49:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=14:5A:FC:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=74:4C:A1:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=08:3A:88:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=9C:2F:9D:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=94:08:53:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
device_alias=E4:AA:EA:00:00:00/FF:FF:FF:00:00:00,Flock-WiFi
ill try to test tomorrow. flock map says i have one down the road
When mine gets here, I`ll mostly be using it to upgrade firmware and control my robots anywhere, I use linux as my daily driver anyway so it was a no brainer for me, though I`ll probably be spending most of my time on it in Thonny and GTKTerm.
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I’ve heard that pi os is kind of slow? Is this correct?
It depends, it is much faster then my TRS-80. It is all relative, if you want performance then you should look at other modern processors. If you want the ability to run Linux at a reasonable cost with reasonable performance then Raspberry Pi OS is quite acceptable on the newer boards. You must keep in mind that Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian, it is not the OS but the processor, the RAM support and IO support that counts towards the performance.
My problem with Raspberry Pi OS is that it can not run the Arduino IDE that is used to build the PicoCalc BIOS, but it has no problems building PicoMite on Raspberry Pi 5/8GB with NVME. I played a Pi4B/4GB and a Pi Zero 2 to build PicoMite which is doable but effing slow.
For “real” work, browsing the internet and watching youtube is use my 6 core / 4Ghz windows system with 4 x 1920x1080 displays (1) attached, that is something the Raspberry boards can not support. This system is also used for Raspberry Pi work because through RDP I was able to use the displays while working on PicoMite which is something the Pi5 cannot deliver. (1) Two displays are normally used, the other two can be activated if needed, the maximum I used with RDP until now was 3 displays.
I only had issues with a cheap sd card. Once I got on nvme it works great.
Make sure to use a window manager that doesn’t tax the GPU much though
I use it for short wave listening, I also use it for monitoring my own transmissions via KiwiSDR. I also use it for monitoring the entire band spectrum, as my Radios don’t have one (TS-2000, TS-480HX, and TM-D710GA).
There is also decoding of SSTV or AmateurTV. Its also very good for using mobile in place of my laptop.
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Im not sure of the make and model. But it HAS to be a good part, as its what came out of my SteamDeck when I upgraded it to 2tb.
It does suck back the battery though, Im looking at doing a 4 18650 upgrade, or a larger pack.