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Computers & Hardware => PC Hardware => Topic started by: renluop on February 02, 2015, 07:02:59 PM
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Article on new version in PC Advisor (http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/desktop-pc/3596491/raspberry-pi-2-model-b-review/?cmpid=HTML-DN020215&olo=daily%20news).
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yep going to get one :)
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The B+ seems to be more than adequate for the job in hand and only hope that 6X more computing power does not meen 6X more wattage power :-\
http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/ (http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/)
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The B+ seems to be more than adequate for the job in hand and only hope that 6X more computing power does not meen 6X more wattage power :-\
http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/ (http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/)
The quotes and initial reviews seem to suggest it's slightly more power hungry than the B+, but not by much - similar to the original (and less efficient) model B.
I'm quite excited and have ordered one. The desktop experience of the Raspberry Pi is a bit disappointing, to the point of being infuriating if you're trying to use a web browser, so the extra CPU power is very welcome.
That said, I've got several older Raspberry Pis (including an earlier Model B with only 256Mb RAM) and they work fine doing what I've got them doing, be it media centre (Kodi/Raspbmc), NAS with 2 hard disks attached, or temperature monitor and chiming Big Ben bongs in my shed every hour ;D
Ian
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I will wait to see reports of windows 10 running on it. I am not keen on that but if it allows Bald Eagle1's Hg612 modem stats to run on a Pi it would be worth it. :)
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I thought HG612 Modem Stats originated as a set of Unix scripts?
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I think it may have before before becoming supported for windows.
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So it can't be that hard to go back. But, I note Windows 10 may only support Modern apps on RasbPi, the type you would find in the Windows store.
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the type you would find in the Windows store.
Yuk!
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I actually live down the road from the Sony factory the Pi is made in, and it's an amazing production line. Recent local press showed images and video from inside.
I too will be ordering the Pi 2, will be interested to see and test out the improvements!
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I seem to remember Asbokid was up in arms about their dubious open-source credentials
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This is Microsoft's not-much-info-yet announcement about Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 2
http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support (http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support)
Since they're talking about maker communities and the like, it would seem that they want to encourage home tinkerers to develop stuff for it - so HG612 modem stats might not be impossible ;D
An interesting fact is that the new Pi has an ARMv7 processor, so it'll run other OSes that support ARMv7, eg Ubuntu as well as Raspbian. Previous Pi was ARMv6 which was a bit long in the tooth and didn't have much support.
Ian
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Hmm, looks like 12 GBP to sign up as a developer. That's a one-off lifetime payment.
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I will wait to see reports of windows 10 running on it. I am not keen on that but if it allows Bald Eagle1's Hg612 modem stats to run on a Pi it would be worth it. :)
If it supports the running of 32 bit Windows applications, it may work.
Dot Net is required for the HG612 Modem Stats GUI, but it can also still be used by manually creating the scheduled task & manually editing the HG612_stats.ini file.
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The developer pages seem to suggest it would use Win32, but more announcements to come as they say.
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Hmm, looks like 12 GBP to sign up as a developer. That's a one-off lifetime payment.
Just signed up to the "Windows Developer Program for IoT" and didn't see any mention of a fee. Perhaps that come later.
My PiB2 arrived this morning but haven't had much time to play with it. I ran an Update/Upgrade though and that did seem noticeably more sprightly, as it should I suppose!
FWIW, I've been using a Pi B for monitoring router stats (and central heating temperatures) for the last year or more. A homebrew solution, that adheres to the KISS principles, is not too difficult to achieve...
On the Pi a Python script, run once a minute as a cron job, accesses the router via telnet, grabs a couple of pages of text, parses the required information out of them and appends the results to a text file in csv format.
On the PC I use the PuTTY ftp client to, when asked, grab this csv file from the Pi and save it.
I've then written an application (using Dolphin Smalltalk) to display the stats in a graphical format.
All works quite well* and is easily modifiable if I need to monitor an extra stat or two.
Ian
*If anyone knows how to get the IPv4 uptime (as displayed on the routers gui status page) via telnet on a ZyXel VMG 8324 I would be grateful for the details. It's the one stat I can't find!
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Might be worth pointing out but you should not take a picture of your Rpie2 with a Xeon based flash from a camera / like device or be in an area where that is likely to happen without it being in some sort of case as it will cause the PI to power down.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=99042
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Might be worth pointing out but you should not take a picture of your Rpie2 with a Xeon based flash from a camera / like device or be in an area where that is likely to happen without it being in some sort of case as it will cause the PI to power down.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=99042
An interesting quirk of the design/choice of components. :)