Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O

• bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, maybe if I was an experience coder capable of writing my own libraries that would help. Even still, this must be a new board, the documentation for it is abysmal. On the opi forums people are asking what gpio libraries work on this board, and the answer seems to be, well you will have to write you’re own for now, ok, but not all of us are at that level. I didn’t realize this was such a new board when I bought it, and support on the off brands is known to be much more sparse. I have just finished my second animatronic halloween decoration for my yard, and bought this because I can’t get any more rpi’s at the moment. With rpi, there is a great libraries to work with, and tons of good documentation on how to use them. It’s great to pump out cheap alternatives, but without software and documentation support, they aren’t really that useful.

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  • Indicah@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • somethingp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If for nothing else, probably to be able to control it or turn it on or off based on other conditions remotely. But you can do that with an esp8266 too.

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