Right now I’m finishing up my installation on the little CHIP board – only to find that WEBMIN would not work – and why is that? Well, the entire WEBMIN site down and also this morning – SOURCEFORGE website was down!!! it’s back up now and webmin is now nicely installed on CHIP along with PHP, SQLITE, PHPLiteAdmin, Node-Red, Mosquitto and PHPSYSINFO which tells me that I have used up over half of my RAM but only a small part of the 4GB of internal storage. I could become a fan of CHIP –though it is a tad SLOW – on the other hand it’s a tad inexpensive.
Many tutorials by Kolban, author of a well done esp8266 free ebook (look on his site)
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UChKn_BlaVrMrhEquPNI6HuQ
you can have 3 of them for the same price on aliexpress, just search for T-COBBLER:
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Pete, cat you tell power consuption of this c.h.i.p. little beast?
Sorry, nothing about cats.
Can you tell power consuption of this c.h.i.p. little beast?
I’ve not done that yet Vladimir as I’ve had other issues today… but it is low, I can tell from the lack of heat – BUT – I have to say when kitting this out with node-red etc, it is NOTICEABLY slower than the likes of the Raspberry Pi 2 or the FriendlyArm M1. I suspect it’s best use is going to be as a simple controller rather than anything more ambitious. The graphical worktop is also notably slower than the others and the file manager display is awful. I think a lot of this could be FIXED mind you.
A USB voltage/current meter in-line dongle reports about 0.23 A when idle. Note during boot, the current spikes up much higher. I saw 0.70 A so a 1 A adapter is recommended. This is for the CHIP computer with nothing plugged in except to the microUSB port.