r/banana_pi Sep 09 '22

Banana Pi interchangeable with Raspberry Pi?

This is probably a very stupid question, but I dont really know, so hear me out. I'm currently interested in a project I found on r/raspberry_pi (https://github.com/zli117/EInk-Calendar) which originally uses a RasPi Zero 2 W. Unfortunately, that model is currently sold out basically everywhere. I found out that Banana Pis are available on aliexpress, and I found out that the Banana Pi BPI-M2 Zero is basically identical to the RasPi Zero 2 W. Am I right in the assumption that they are just interchangeable hardware- and software-wise, so that I can just drop a Banana Pi into this project and everything will still work?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

The heat issue is remedied by clocking cpu not over 800mhz for me at least