ARM7 Windows IoT Core

[gcurtis79]

I couldn't find anything searching the forums or the internet, and I haven't yet played with Windows iot core. What I'm wondering is if the scannercast software will run on an arm7 running Windows iot core.

I will be testing this tonight if I don't get any responses ahead of time.

I'm currently running my uniting bct8 on a Raspberry Pi zero w but having trouble getting the tags to work with one of the Python scripts I found. If I can use scannercast with iot core, that would be much simpler to set up. Unless someone here might be able to help me out getting it working on my pi.

 

[eorange]

I don't think you can do that. Windows IoT core doesn't run Win32 applications. I have not played with it, but my impression is that it's not a full Windows OS, unlike Windows IoT Enterprise. Hope this helps.

 

[devicelab]

I don't think you can do that. Windows IoT core doesn't run Win32 applications. I have not played with it, but my impression is that it's not a full Windows OS, unlike Windows IoT Enterprise. Hope this helps.

That's generally correct. You'll need to recompile (and/or develop) UWP applications for the Win10 IoT Core OS. I haven't used it in in a while but I worked with it for about nine months. It's not a traditional OS and is very limited.

There are tons of sample apps written by users and hardware hackers to read temp sensors, etc. You can build some neat projects and use UWP to send data across the 'net.

Performance was OK from the Pi 2/3 and other IoT dev boards. The Dragonboard 410c and the Intel units were faster but some of the driver support was iffy. The Pi 3 was probably the most stable of all of them.

The Intel units were rather expensive though:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102177

Here's a good starting point:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot-core/windows-iot

If you're ready to dive in then you can start here:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Downloads