Should i choose the Orangepi over the Raspberrypi?

[Johson]

I'm working on a project that utilises AI, GPS, Bluetooth... and i can't decide whether i should choose OPi or RPi. I've been researching for the past couple of days and I'm amazed at what the OPi can do, it's crazy for it's price. But my concern is how little support and community there is out there, idk if it's worth the risk. So if any one worked with it can you please tell me what kind of difficulties have you faced and how similar is it to working with the raspberry?

[Werner]

8 minutes ago, Johson said:

, it's crazy for it's price.

Because they sell you the hardware only. Their software support is very poorly made since for the price they cannot afford proper software support and - even more important - maintenance. They leave this burden to - mostly unpaid - random developers across the world like us.

 

At least I'd go for a device with Standard Support which the Ultra and Max hasn't: https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Standard support

 

For the raspberry you would need additional hardware (an AI kit I guess). No clue though about how they both perform in comparsion. For RK3588 you have two choices for now: The rockchip bsp implementation and https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rknn-toolkit2. Or using 6.18 kernel using the reverse engineered Rocket driver and latest bleeding edge mesa to get npu access. I personally did not play with either of these options and have no intention to do so for the moment.