Subj : Raspberry Pi in commercial products
To   : Nightfox
From : vorlon
Date : Wed Dec 13 2023 09:26 pm

Hi Nightfox,

 > Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you
 > can do with open-source stuff.  Something I was wondering about
 > recently was, I wonder why Raspberry Pi boards (and similar, I
 > suppose) aren't being adoped & used more for commercial products.
[...]
 > program to run on that computer if needed.  I feel like many times, a
 > Raspberry Pi with a case/enclosure, with Linux on it, would be
 > perfectly suitable and would be much cheaper than buying a standard
 > laptop/desktop with a commercial OS.  I know this wouldn't be true for

I have four Pi's inistalled at a client site. 3 are Pi3's and one is a
Pi4. They are connected to aprox 40" LCD TV's and are used to display the
job board of outgoing cars (Car repair business). They have been in
operation now for approx 4 years for the 3's and two for the pi4.

I have them using the browser in full screen Kiosk mode. They do
have keyboards connected, but are not for general use. Only to allow
them to reboot the pi's if neded.

Writes to the SD card's are turned off, and all logging is as well, the
browser cache is set to a small ram disk (20mb) as there is no graphics
displayed. They are all on small UPS's. There's only been a couple of
times when I've needed to go and re-doo the image.

They used to run old pc's to do this for one display initially. It fell
over one day and I said about the power usage, plus the installed windows
was out of date. I said I'd get the machine going for now, but a better
soloution with the PI's was the way to go... 

They had great results with the first unit, so added 1 another and then
the final unit's the past few years.



\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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