Install on NanoPi NEO Core

[Keksstar]

Hi!

I want to install the satellite on an NanoPi NEO Core, which has an armhf infrastructure. The install script doesn´t support this. Is there any way to install it manually?

Thanks!

[Julusian]

We don't officially support armhf, and it hasn't been tested in years so there may be issues such as missing dependencies that make it non-trivial to build/install.

But you could try cloning the repository, running yarn, then yarn build and finally node satellite/dist/main.js. You will also need to setup the udev rules to allow usb access, and there might be other important steps in the install script https://github.com/bitfocus/companion-satellite/blob/main/pi-image/install.sh or maybe the update script https://github.com/bitfocus/companion-satellite/blob/main/pi-image/update.sh that will be needed.
If it all works, then you can setup systemd (based on https://github.com/bitfocus/companion-satellite/blob/main/pi-image/satellite.service) to auto-launch it.

In my experience, cheaper boards (including cheaper arm64 boards) dont have the power to drive a streamdeck nicely. It results in a rather visible staggered button update when changing page in companion

[Keksstar]

Alright, so you won´t recommend install on an armhf infrastructure?

So if this:
CPU: Allwinner H3, Quad-core Cortex-A7 Up to 1.2GHz
DDR3 RAM: 256MB/512MB DDR3 RAM
isn´t sufficent enough - what else do you recommend? Raspberry Pi Pico? I need the smallest board possible ;-)

[Keksstar]

@Julusian any recommendations?

[Julusian]

not a pi pico, pretty sure they cant do linux and definitely cant do usb well enough for a streamdeck.

I've only done some experimenting, not tried running anything long term so I don't really have a recommendation based on usage.

But I think I kind of liked the https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS which is arm64 and only a few mm bigger. It does have full size ports though, I don't know if you need that.