Neon OS On RPi5

Here’s a short demo comparing the Raspberry Pi 5 to the Mark 2 (Pi 4). I’m very impressed with the local performance; this used a basic USB microphone/sound card for speakers but I plan on testing out some other audio solutions that currently work with the Pi4. I have a build presently running so anyone with a Pi5 can run Neon OS and will comment with a link once it’s ready.

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The RPi5-compatible image can be downloaded from our server

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Hi NeonDaniel,

I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 5 and have been encountering issues finding a compatible image for it. I attempted to use the image initially linked in the discussion, but it appears the link is no longer functional.

In my efforts, I tried flashing images intended for both the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Orange Pi 5 onto my Raspberry Pi 5. Unfortunately, when using the Orange Pi 5 image, I encountered a boot error indicating “no bootable partition.”

Could you clarify if there’s a specific image I should use for the Raspberry Pi 5? Or perhaps there is a need for certain adjustments or an alternative download source that I should consider? Any guidance on getting my device up and running would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your assistance!

Sorry about that; I went back and updated the link in my previous post.

The “rpi4” images should work on the Pi 5; I tested with both a USB and Micro SD card. The latest release from yesterday can be downloaded here. Let me know if you run into any issues; I’m happy to help work through them :slight_smile: .

Thank you for the quick reply,
When I installed pi4 image from your site i got during boot some issues, have to look it up what those were, for now I am trying to run the docker containers upon the pi5 raspberryPi os.

also any change a pi5 hardware supported version will be released in the future?

Hi @green9berry

The ovos-installer runs OVOS on Raspberry Pi 5, so maybe until Neon works on RPi 5 you could try it.

Flash a Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm 64-bit Lite and run the installer.

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I believe a user in our Matrix chat got Neon containers running on a Pi 5 but I can’t find them on the forum here to tag them.

I see the installer supports ovos-core and HiveMind; would it be possible to also support Neon? Is that something I (or someone) could PR to that project? I admittedly haven’t gotten around to digging into that project but it’s been on my to-do list for weeks…

IMHO it makes more sense to fork the installer as neon-installer instead

HiveMind and OVOS complement each other, Neon replaces both

@NeonDaniel indeed a fork might be a better solution. :+1: