I develop hardware nodes for the Raspberry Pi.
The hardware driver is written in C++.
I am currently developing for 32bit and 64bit.
To test the nodes I have to work with many SD cards for 32bit and 64bit and the different PI models.
If a new OS or Node-Red is released, all SD cards have to be updated.
That is time-consuming.
This is very important because Raspberry recently really set a trap for me and other developers.
They simply changed the access to the GPIO and my gpiox node no longer worked on Raspi except RPi5.
In the future I would like to only develop for the Raspberry Pi 64bit OS.
Do many users use 32bit OS?
Thanks for your answers.
Hi @iiot2k - use polling
What OS Architecture, is Node RED running on in your Setup.
- 32Bit
- 64Bit
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Surely almost no-one is buying new 32 bit Raspberry Pies?
A while ago the Pi Imager would recommend the 32 bit OS for a Pi Zero 2 even though it's a 64 bit device, especially for the Lite version.
The current version still offers 32 bit but 64 bit is now at the top of all the lists.
So new devices are much more likely to be 64 bit with the 64 bit OS.
Certainly all my old 32 bit Pies are now abandoned.
I think I still have 4 off 32 bit actively controlling stuff.
You need to allow for a count in your poll. I have 7 in total.
Ah man.. - can't change it after 5 minutes (at least not my access level) - may be for all?
At some point nodejs will stop being available on 32bit and that will be that... Officially it has already been dropped - but is still available in the unofficial builds... so we can still use it ok for now.
I also have two Raspberry Pi Zero W.
But you really need a lot of patience to install Node-red on them.
Maybe these Raspberry Pi's are no longer up to date.
This answers my question:
https://rpi-imager-stats.raspberrypi.com/
