Raspberry Pi question

gSender ❓ Question
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So, Since the PI is not officially Supported yet. I am not sure where to put this question.

Since I am only using this PI for gSender, I figured this is the best place to ask.

I have very limited experience with the Pi, and Linux for that matter.
one thing I notice with the Pi, is sometimes it will just lock up for 20-60 seconds.

Which is fine and dandy if your just playing with it, but if I am going to use this as my Gcode sender, I worry these pauses might cause issues.

is this a Pi thing? is this my Pi thats broken? or maybe there is a configuration thing I missed?

I have a Pi 4, Version B (1 gigs of ram)

I just recently ordered a new SDCard with faster ram on the chance its my Disk access thats causing this.

any experts out there?

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I wish I could comment on this Stephen but alas my Pi experience is also slim :grimacing:. I know there aren’t too many in the LongMill community with Pis set up on their machines but I figure I’ll revive this thread just in case anyone has anything else to add that could be helpful to your original thread here.

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I’ve actually walked away from the pie for a few months while the windows version seems to stabilize

There has been too many issues for the pi way back when

I have a raspberry Pi 4 1gig

And a

Raspberry Pi 4 8gig

I’m going to try it out again when I do the install documentation review

But in my opinion compared to ugs she’s under seems to be a resource hog.

I doubt any profiling or resource enhancements of been done to pie version

I would recommend at the very least that you guys have

A pi 3 with 2gig,
a pi 4 with 1 gig,
and a pi 4 with 8 gig

They’re not exactly $50 a piece. But I suspect once this thing works properly the pie option will be the preferred one because
it’s tiny and
it doesn’t succumb to dust problems the same way a PC would
Doesn’t have USB sleep issues

So it really makes sense for the dev team to have access to a small sample of what’s out there

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