My first post to the O.E.M. forum, hello world!
http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/02/raspberry-pi-2/
"....This is the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: a substantial upgrade from the Model B+ that will go on sale later today for $35/£25. The new board has some fundamental upgrades that could well warrant the upgrade for existing Raspberry Pi dabblers -- that is, if smaller wasn't better. Raspberry Pi Foundation lead Eben Upton told The Register that the new Model B "is a usable PC now." A fact borne out by official support for Windows 10."
I like the idea of using the new Pi for the the emonBase + the new unit seems also ideal to also host standard windows monitoring software ( SNMP + web portal etc....) all in one module.
Anyone have any thoughts on the timeframe or the shop to have this unit tested and for sale as a upgraded emonBase?
Thanks.
I'm looking to build a home energy monitoring solution from O.E.M.'s solution, one that can feed the metrics into my existing monitoring solution.
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
Is very appealing!
Apparently the Pi 2 B is totally compatible with existing B and B+ software, so it shouldn't need much testing if any with existing software. However "windows 10" will not be released until late 2015 and the "previews" are currently only available for x86 and x64 platforms.
You could email the shop (contact details) to ask about stock dates, but both the hardware and software for the Pi should be good except maybe for the pre-built SD card image as the basic raspbian OS image has changed. But once you have the OS up and running other SW should be fine.
Paul
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
The Pi 2 caught my attention as well. The increase in processing power and doubling of RAM is welcome and will be useful in at least two of my projects.
But the upcoming (if at all) support for Windows 10 is a weak negative as far as I'm concerned. The reason I'm drawn to the Pi is the low price. Requiring any kind of commercial software for a Pi-based project could easily kill it versus the same project using an open source software stack. I don't see Windows 10 getting much traction in the Pi community, but I could be wrong.
I guess my read on the market is that standard monitoring software is generally open source and I can't really see any advantage of moving the platform onto Windows, especially on resource constrained hardware like the Pi and Pi 2.
But to each his own.
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
Windows 10 for the Pi will be free.
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
I hear Windows 10 for the Pi will be free as well.
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
I'd like the ability to run virtualization software on the Pi 2. One VM configured to run the OS for the emonBase and one VM to host my windows based monitoring and reporting solution.
Does anyone know of a VM solution for the Pi?
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
windows may be free - but who cares - linux has *always* been free
Mind you Linux is open as well as free...
I like to know what's happening
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
Anyone got the current SD card image to work on the new Pi? http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/10134
Re: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Announced Today -official support for Windows 10.
Windows 10 will be free as is Windows 8 for any device with a screen size lower than 7". Windows has already been ported to run on ARM, both Windows Phone and Windows RT are ARM compilations. Microsoft has opened up .Net core which is available on GitHub - https://github.com/dotnet/corefx The Microsoft of today is not the Microsoft of the 90's. I see this as opening up further innovation which surely has to be a good thing, even if it is just because of greater competition