Hello,
We are working with a friend of mine on a all in one solution that can embed the Kstars/Ekos/INDI, PHD2 and/or lin_guider and as many as possible useful software.
We wanted it easy to use and as powerful as possible to offer a good response time for astrometric operations.
We have tested RPi3, Odroid-XU4 but none of them can't provide a fluent solution. So we choose to test the Tinker board from ASUS.
We installed the armbian distribution on it.
First tests are very encouraging as you can see on the following video from Laurent (Argonothe on webastro site).
Well I just watched a review on it and it doesn't seem ready despite being almost twice as fast as RPI3. Ethernet drivers crashing the board, SPI not working, major power issues..etc. Guess maybe when they settle these issues. RPI3 is not the best, but it is the most reliable.
Hi Jasem,
I use 4.4.66 armbian, the one provided by Asus is rotten ...
With an Armbian it is very stable and fast, yes it also requires a very good power supply and cables I use a 2.5 A and a powered hub.
And ethernet driver needs some fixing in Armbian, but the system is very recent for this board...
It lacks a dependency to the Kstars / Ekos ARM installation. libqt5sql5-sqlite
Yeah the review was using Armbian, still what about power issue? Does it reboot? If you connect to Ethernet, you get random crashes? It is very interesting, but my RPI3 is running my observatory just fine now and if I upgrade, I'd like to it to be stable.