Orange PI Zero 2W Review: Supreme Waste of Time and Effort!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel! Today, I'm diving into my experience with the Orange PI Zero 2W. Spoiler alert: it's been a supreme waste of time and effort. In this video, I'll walk you through a couple of the Distros “that worked” Some that didn't and the numerous issues I encountered, and why I think this device falls short of expectations. From software glitches to hardware limitations, I'll cover it all. If you're considering buying the Orange PI Zero 2W, you might want to watch this first. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below, and don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more honest reviews and tech insights.
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This video is a waste of my time. This board is not a desktop pc so why try to use it as one
Has desktop os distros, most of which don't even work, which is what i was pointing out. Close specs to a Raspberry Pi 3b and that I used a mini pc back in the day. Again, I never claimed this to be a desktop pc, either.
The only way I would want to use this is with SSH as a dev server or a node in a distributed experiment. I really don't understand why people even bother trying to use tiny SBCs as desktops, or for that matter why images are supplied for these tiny SBCs with GUI baked in. If you don't already have a laptop or desktop, you don't have any business buying one of these SBCs imo.
I wanted to see a review of this tiny board as a 3d printer CPU (running armdebian + Klipper + moonracker). Now I'm using a 1GB RAM BTT-Pi (which sometimes lacks performance), and I can see this Orange Pi 02W with 2 or 4 GB RAM as a cheap replacement to a RPi 4B (shame there is no RPi 02W with 2/4 GB of RAM, just 512MB is not enough for 3D Printing with Input Shaping enabled)
@viniciusdeavilajorge5053 Hi there. I did a review of the radaxa zero 3w and that unit was pretty snappy. I'd take a look at that. They have 4gb variants.
These are awesome for people that write code, or work with the electrical/GPIO side. The small size and weight means someone could mount one on a drone (for example), and interface with sensors or a myriad of other tasks. The low power consumption means it minimizes battery drain and has a lower impact on that drone's flight time. I could stick it on a mobile robot running from a power bank, or attach a camera and stick it inside a beehive.
Using it as a desktop may be useful on a sailboat or something where maybe you sacrifice performance for getting the most out of a battery charged from a solar panel.
Someone coming from a very entry level PC background that doesn't build stuff (maybe they just want it to run youtube, ms office, and play video games) wont get much out of it.
Hi there, you're totally spot on. I just mainly wanted to try out op distros for it and found that very few worked. I also wanted to see if the system could do basic tasks like play youtube videos since they had desktop distros. I probably didn't give it enough time. I've got an op 5 that runs great, so I know some are ok. Some like this might be suited to a camera setup or a pi hole. This unit is roughly the same power as a raspberry pi 3b. I had one of those, and it had less ram and did ok. I'm currently testing another zero product, and it is doing so much better than this one. Well ty for the insight and tips for this sbc. I appreciate it :)
Another example of how a maker/builder would use something like this is to run a server OS (like ubuntu server), and run a bunch of python code as systemd services/daemons.... or perhaps a custom x-server kind of deal to power a touchscreen kiosk in the lobby of an airport. The OS in these cases is a little less relevant, and you're more concerned with the limits of the hardware (ie - does it play this 4K video file smoothly when the user presses the help button on the kiosk). It really makes more sense benchmarked from that perspective.
@JazzTechie this is great info and examples tyvm again! :) I'm currently working on a project I'll use either my Radxa board or my pi 5. Stay tuned!!
Been thinking about getting a PI just so I can keep my main pc powered down unless I'm actually in need of it. Electricity isn't free, and I imagine one of these would pay for itself pretty quickly. The only reason I haven't done it is that support seems fickle with these kinds of products. Sometimes things just don't work, and you never know if its you or is there something wrong with it. It is pretty tempting to get an sbc, print a shell and stick it to the back of my monitor for watching videos, reading or just farting around. My son's first computer was a kid's product called Kano which was a raspberry pi 3, so I've messed around with that a little bit. I don't remember being too impressed with it. Hopefully you can exchange it out and try it again. God bless ya and good luck, man!
Hi there! Yep, I'd say the Raspberry Pi 5 4gb would be your safest bet if you wanted an sbc to watch videos and jas support. I might have gotten a bad unit :( Thanks again, I appreciate it :)
Wow this really did push your limits lol hopefully you will be able to return it.
Hi there. Yeah, I guess they all can't be successful videos :( Working on a return :(
Great content and review of the board.😎..im only using these boards to get some crypto coins from it very cheap power use...🤪
@merleatmo Hi there! Ah, crypto minning with these. I've never even thought they could do that. I will revisit this sbc in the near future and give it another chance. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it!
@@RememberThisTech im Just spec mining verus coin...not to sell them but to hold them...1 verus coin values $1.30 of time of writing. Had great projects with these boards but then doing nothing untill i found out about mining 😂
@merleatmo Ahh cool!! I'll have to figure out how to do this maybe give it a try since I've 4 sbcs sitting doing nothing :(
@@RememberThisTech ruclips.net/video/n3z-bqyIPXA/видео.htmlsi=p0osVCCaqB8DX2YN this guy has a good tutorial howto start....good Luck and have a lot of fun with the boardshort 😎🤛
That's to bad. I like the size / ram options for a Pihole server. Orange Pi 5 (+) is to much compute for a pihole + unbound for 37 clients (I have 2 of them but they are VERUS coin miners now). I'll stay with my dual raspberry pi 4 for now for pihole. Thanks for all the info.
Hi there! Yeah, maybe mine was a bad unit, but I'm not sure. Raspberry pi 4 4s or maybe even 1 5 would work for a pi hole. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it.
Under linux the gpu and vpu is not yet supported on this SOC if you install android you will get stable full HD playback
@nefelejtselirni Hi there that's what I've heard tyvm. I plan to do a follow up video on this sbc and give it another shot. ;)
I heard that it has no hardware acceleration of H.264 and H.265
@petrklic7064 Could be right I've yet to look into that deep
This SBC could be good for application with small touch screen due to its size and big RAM.
Unfortunately, connecting screen and touch layer to this is not easy, if possible.
I haven't found one officially compatible with this SBC.
@petrklic7064 Hi There. Oh wow that's good information to know ty! Wonder if my Radaxa would work for that? Probably raspberry pi is ones best bet though.
@@RememberThisTech Well, strange thing is that i haven't found any video (tutorial) about connecting screen to this. There are recommended compatible screens for other Orange SBCs, but not for this.
It will need some experimenting. Good for someone who already have some touchscreen modules at home.
Rpi zero screens do not work with orangpi zero 2w?
I'm unsure I'd that is so or not
Hello Jason, is that faulty unit returnable?
Hi Laurence, it is, and I'm in the process of attempting to do just that :(
@@RememberThisTech Hello Jason, I hope that you get your money back or credit with the seller.
@@laurencejohnson4106 me too ty
didnt even try to enable gpu hahahah
didnt even try another rom
didnt even try android which is why they advertise 4k 30fps :v
dont wanna sound rude but you can do better content
You're right. I didn't put as much time into testing this video as I could have. But after 4 images wouldn't work from op website and their Google download, I kind of lost interest in their bad support and bad distro releases of their product. So yes, I could have tracked down and figured out how to enable and install the mali panfrost drivers, etc. But what I was trying to do is point out how they lact support and put out bad images so others may have a heads up. Oh, by the way, I pointed out in the video that Android would and does fully support the Gpu acceleration... but that image failed as well. So yes, i did try it.. you know there's also a possibility that i got a bad zero 2w....I'll try to do better thanks for the info and pushing me forward.
@@RememberThisTech the Mali driver should be installed already, that's not how you enable the GPU on Opi zero 2w.
@@r0galik ty!
@@RememberThisTech I didn't even tell you how... But someone else might have (you use orangepi-config).
@@r0galik Thanks! :)
Well now I know not to buy the Orange Pi Zero
This is just about the dumbest pi review I’ve seen - it’s not a "desktop" system. Anyways… with Orange Pi boards I’ve mostly started from Armbian, never bothered with "official" images.
Hi there. First off your probably spot on about just starting with Armbian. I never stated that this review would be be just using the op zero 2w as a main desktop. But since they had images for them I wanted to see what worked and didn't. I mostly wanted to point out what went wrong. Their support and images weren't good. Not every review is a picture perfect "everything is great and perfect review lol". Thanks for the tip.