Can the orange pi zero with 512MB RAM run node-red?

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For a project, I want to use an orange pi zero 512MB to recieve data from a scale over serial USB. For this I want to use node-red. The flow itself is gonna be pretty simple, just send a string over USB and get a value back and then send that value to an influxDB.

Is the orange pi zero able to handle that?

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Running in 512mb should be fine, you may want to ensure that the right options (--max-heap-size) are passed to NodeJS to limit the size of the heap it uses, but that should be about it.

Node-RED will run on a Raspberry Pi Zero which has the same amount of memory.

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Are you planning to run influxdb on the pi too? I think that might not be more of an issue. It might be better sending the data back to a more powerful machine via MQTT and running influxdb there.

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