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

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**Created:** [9 March 2023 12:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-the-orange-pi-zero-with-512mb-ram-run-node-red/76346 "2023-03-09T12:22:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ReinJah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@ReinJah](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ReinJah)\
**Post date:** [9 March 2023 12:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-the-orange-pi-zero-with-512mb-ram-run-node-red/76346/1 "2023-03-09T12:22:01Z")

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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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**Author:** ![hardillb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hardillb/32/12373_2.png) [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)\
**Post date:** [9 March 2023 12:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-the-orange-pi-zero-with-512mb-ram-run-node-red/76346/2 "2023-03-09T12:44:59Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [9 March 2023 14:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-the-orange-pi-zero-with-512mb-ram-run-node-red/76346/3 "2023-03-09T14:27:07Z")

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> [@ReinJah](#):
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> send that value to an influxDB

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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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [8 May 2023 14:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-the-orange-pi-zero-with-512mb-ram-run-node-red/76346/4 "2023-05-08T14:28:02Z")

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