Astroberry on Raspberry Pi 4?

[DainiusU]

Hi,

 

tried to search but no topics, so... Planning equipment for winter DSO imaging and the idea of freezing my trusty MacbookPro doesn’t look great. So planning to run Astroberry, but a little disturbed by the reports on perfomance issues most probably attributed to small memory size if Pi 3.

Does anyone so far tried to run it on Pi 4? In other words - is it really worth the difference, should I just stick to 3 B?

Any good advise is welcome. Thanks! 

Edited September 18, 2019 by DainiusU

[stash_old]

At this moment in time Astroberry does not run on RPI 4 but RK is currently working on it I believe 🙂   Think you need to visit Indi forum and dig and question 🙂

[wornish]

If you look at my post on this forum moving to the RPi4 it provides a link to scripts that install everything that's Astroberry does and some more.  They work great using Rasbian Buster Desktop on the RPi4.

[DainiusU]

thanks, ordering RPi4 now. With a cooled case  

[wornish]

3 hours ago, DainiusU said:

thanks, ordering RPi4 now. With a cooled case  

If you plan on using WiFi then you might need a separate antenna as the range is significantly impacted by cooled cases. 

Some useful info here.

 

https://www.martinrowan.co.uk/2019/08/wifi-signal-strength-with-raspberry-pi-4-cases/

 

and here

 

https://www.martinrowan.co.uk/2019/09/raspberry-pi-4-cases-temperature-and-cpu-throttling-under-load/

Edited September 18, 2019 by wornish
added link

[DainiusU]

53 minutes ago, wornish said:

If you plan on using WiFi then you might need a separate antenna as the range is significantly impacted by cooled cases. 

Some useful info here.

 

https://www.martinrowan.co.uk/2019/08/wifi-signal-strength-with-raspberry-pi-4-cases/

 

and here

 

https://www.martinrowan.co.uk/2019/09/raspberry-pi-4-cases-temperature-and-cpu-throttling-under-load/

thanks, my case is plastic so should be ok. On the other hand I still haven't decided - the distances I use might be possible via ethernet and be faster I presume.