Great video. But we love the Raspberri PI Pad 5 with the CM4 better. It is much cheaper. You make great reviews, TECHUT. One we miss: We threw away our PinePhone, since it is not a real Linux computer, as was claimed, but we miss one which is 5 inch sized, and can replace Android phones. The Pad 5 is near to that. But what is missing is for instance great office software which can be used with it. This is better with Android. We tested LibreOffice on the PinePhone, bu we gave it up. Can you recommend a real 5 inch Linux computer with Office software which runs on it?
This is actually a solution to that problem for some. It is more expensive than a pi obviously but it still has the 40 pin header and adds a touchscreen. I am using these for work.
for machines with simple interfaces. I am using this to run an automatic tester and nominally I only need stop/start buttons but then it runs a complicated script. There are 5 user programmable buttons. If you combine combinations of buttons and long-press functions there are a lot of permutations of control without even using the touch feature.
You seem like a nice guy, great video... but I own one of these and I strongly disagree with your review. 1.) Taking off the back cover... you make it look so easy??? Really? I found it very difficult and and worried about breaking it in the process. The elephant in the room! Seeed's ReTerminal blank screen of death? 2.) I tried to install a different operating system on this thing and I got nothing but a blank screen... I can ssh into it but the display will no longer work... I spent hours and hours upon hours trying to get the screen back... With the help of the Seeed ReTerminal forum, github, internet, etc. Compiled and recompiled many versions of Seeed-linux-dtoverlay's Tried many flavors of pi linux... can't even get the original release to work. It seems Seeed did some weird things regarding the DSI display and i2c that don't well together. The DSI screen works and I get a flash of it once in a while... At one point I thought that I got it working used it for a couple of hours, shutdown overnight, and the next day "no joy!" again... blank screen!!!!! I give up with a Raspberry Pi CM4 module as a consolation prize? i.e.: google "Seeed ReTerminal blank screen," .... I'm not the only one with this problem.
I can not wait till we can actually buy RPIs again and things like this are useful
I don't think they will ever be widely available again ever.
@@zoidberg444 then it will die in time if they no longer are entry-level
It will be interested to hear about service Myway cf and Getting a Static Public IP and Domain name for any device in any network.
We need a CM4 hand held battery equiped small format device. If we add a sim ard module, it could replace a smartphone.
RTC chip is by the battery, you pointed out the crypto chip as the RTC chip.
Please install diablo leste distro on it. It would be like if Nokia still made an internet tablet like N800 or n900
I'd put that in an apartment like you have the forecast and the news streaming on the wall. That would be useless and necessary.
I accidentally turned on the VNC option and I lost the image on the display, do you know how I can restore reTerminal ??
Great video. But we love the Raspberri PI Pad 5 with the CM4 better. It is much cheaper. You make great reviews, TECHUT. One we miss: We threw away our PinePhone, since it is not a real Linux computer, as was claimed, but we miss one which is 5 inch sized, and can replace Android phones. The Pad 5 is near to that. But what is missing is for instance great office software which can be used with it. This is better with Android. We tested LibreOffice on the PinePhone, bu we gave it up. Can you recommend a real 5 inch Linux computer with Office software which runs on it?
Unfortunately, the lack of availability of Raspberry Pi's means that I have little interest in devices that use them.
It's an all-in-one
This is actually a solution to that problem for some. It is more expensive than a pi obviously but it still has the 40 pin header and adds a touchscreen. I am using these for work.
It's nice but a pain in the rear to access the CM4 itself.
What is the use of such a tiny screen.
Agreed, people would never use devices with small screens
for machines with simple interfaces. I am using this to run an automatic tester and nominally I only need stop/start buttons but then it runs a complicated script. There are 5 user programmable buttons. If you combine combinations of buttons and long-press functions there are a lot of permutations of control without even using the touch feature.
You seem like a nice guy, great video... but I own one of these and I strongly disagree with your review.
1.) Taking off the back cover... you make it look so easy??? Really? I found it very difficult and
and worried about breaking it in the process.
The elephant in the room!
Seeed's ReTerminal blank screen of death?
2.) I tried to install a different operating system on this thing and I got nothing but a blank screen... I can ssh into it but the display will no longer work...
I spent hours and hours upon hours trying to get the screen back...
With the help of the Seeed ReTerminal forum, github, internet, etc.
Compiled and recompiled many versions of Seeed-linux-dtoverlay's
Tried many flavors of pi linux... can't even get the original release to work.
It seems Seeed did some weird things regarding the DSI display and i2c that don't
well together. The DSI screen works and I get a flash of it once in a while... At one point I thought that I got it working used it for a couple of hours, shutdown overnight, and the next day "no joy!" again... blank screen!!!!!
I give up with a Raspberry Pi CM4 module as a consolation prize?
i.e.: google "Seeed ReTerminal blank screen," .... I'm not the only one with this problem.