Most alternatives use Rockchips such as Rk3566 or 3588 which are better in every way to the Pi chips of their respective price points. As long as they don't use the Allwinner chips it's usually decent out of the box but still a bit lacking.

I like Orange Pi more. They have pretty good out of the box documentation and a good range of hardware.

Radxa is also an option but they seem to offer the same stuff as Orange Pi but more expensive.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you very much for pointing this out! It seems I‘ll have to read up on this stuff for my next home automation project.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I used a lepotato on my last project in place of a pi3 but libre computer totally has rockchip boards available as well. Price wise seemed decent, documentation was decent enough for me and more importantly I could actually get one.