Raspberry Pi Zero W?

sergioad

@BuZz man... I want three of them, one for a server, one as a Chromecast device and other as a RetroPie SNES gamepad 😀

Deltax5

@herb_fargus said in Raspberry Pi Zero W?:

Raspberry Pi

is it better then the Raspberry Pi 3 or is it good cuz of it's size.

FlyingTomahawk

Am I assuming correct that besides the WiFi and Bluetooth the specs stayed the same as the previous Pi Zero 1.3 ?

The WiFi and Bluetooth are a very much needed addition and will make setup lot more easy and comfortable.

DigitalMonkey

Has anyone actually got their hands on a Zero W & tried Retropie on it?

The only thing I found online was this - https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/5wz9yi/so_i_got_the_zero_w_today_but_retropie_doesnt/

:/

Fruitybit

@DigitalMonkey It doesn't specify that they actually did try the pi1/zero image there, so not convinced. Should be getting mine soon, wish I'd gone for next day delivery now! But I'll try as soon as.

spagbol

@Fruitybit The current builds (either specifically for the old Zero or for the 3) don't work on the new Zero W. Mine arrived yesterday and I've tried both builds.

DigitalMonkey

@spagbol :(

BuZz

Probably needs a firmware or kernel update. I will create some new images now for you.

adamspc

@BuZz

Sent some love from othermod.com. Hope others are supporting you guys with donations too.
Keep up the hard work.

BuZz

@adamspc Thanks very much - very generous :-)

BuZz

Images are uploading to my google drive.

BuZz

Please try these https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_knGioK16E6eXJIZEtnMDJTeVk

Fruitybit

@spagbol Yup, should have looked here 5 minutes ago! Can also confirm no joy! Except for the rather natty bright shiny green bubble wrap envelope mine came in, lots of joy there;))

New image it is then...

DigitalMonkey

@Fruitybit Let us know how the new image goes with the Zero W.

Still waiting for the postie to bring mine :)

Fruitybit

@DigitalMonkey lol!(( what a time to run out of sd cards!! Damn forward planning brain fail.

tashman

I'm trying it now. It is quite slow (I'm using a 4Gb class 2 card) and it's hanging at:-

[FAILED] "Failed to start apply_noobs_os_config.service"

tashman

It didn't respond after 6-7 minutes so I killed it.....

tashman

This is using the 4.1.17 image that Buzz provided by the way. The zip is about half the size of the normal 4.1 zero image, is that to be expected?

spagbol

@BuZz Thanks for those. I'll try them tomorrow and report back.

DigitalMonkey

Check out @jacklaidlaw fix here - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8629/pi-zero-w-won-t-boot-retropie/4