I feel like me ordering a half dozen of these to control lights and sprinklers or random network pi-holes is the equivalent of the toast buttering robot on rick and morty. poor things will never live to their potential, but here we are.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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I can recommend using the Pi Zero and Zero 2. Especially the Zero 2 is quite powerful, cheap and compact.
For that an ESP is plenty at even cheaper
This is the best way. A raspberry pi is way more suited to managing the entire network of devices than turning a relay on and off.
All mine does is run pi-hole. It’s doomed to ad purgatory.
Me: can raspberry pis keep up with home assistant system requirements forever?
Pi foundation: hold my beer
I repurposed an old gaming PC as a Proxmox server, stuck HA on a VM and have never looked back. Backups are easier, it’s blazing fast, I can have 90 days of history if I feel to, upgrades/reboots take seconds instead of minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my Pis and use them for my 3D printers and such, but Home Assistant is a lot for a Pi to manage well at times.
Having said that… I too am curious about the performance bump here especially considering the SD card write speed increase and the PCI-E (SSD) capability. I’m sure it’ll still kill SD cards every 6 months with HA running on it though.
I'm running HA on an esxi VM on a gen10 proliant server for the same reasons.
I made the joke because the max spec pi 4 is just reaching breaking point based on testing a recent upgrade on a HA instance I previously had on there.
If the pi 5 copes better that still opens HA up for a generation of new home automators without having to invest a lot of cash or maintain software and hardware for a non-SBC.
I hope this trend doesn't continue with HA though; it's getting very resource heavy. It's my second most resource intensive VM after a windows VM which says a lot....
Literally just finally got a 4... 😂
I got lucky in 2019 and got my 4gb for msrp. Still running my nas while being turned off 2x during that time only when power outage. 🤣
Good to know, so I'll wait till 5 is released instead of getting a 4 (they're heavily overpriced anyways).
But, will we be able to buy them when we need them? I sure hope so. There have been a few moments I really needed one and couldn't get one at less than 150% markup. I am down to one RP4b
Priced wonderfully as well, fantastic.
Ya but they can never keep up with demand, I almost want it to be a bit more expensive
It starts at $60. The point that really launched the Pi's popularity was that it was only $35.
Can't really compare from that long ago, given the current economical situation and inflation.
But it's also better hardware, they still sell older models too, so if you don't need the performance increase then there's cheaper options still available (and different models to further narrow down to what you need it for). I think they are defo worth $60.
Yeah it's weird that they don't have plans for that price point. I mean, given inflation the starting price should be closer to $50 USD, so I'm guessing they're going to continue production of RPi4 to keep that entry level low.
Any word about shipping volumes? Is this RPI 5 going to be like a unicorn or the are plans to produce them in real volume?