Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I’ve been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

    • orangeboats@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I use a pi for servers because of the assumption that it uses very little power to run (compared to say, an old unused laptop), is that not the case?

      • PopYaCork@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        Sure, but I just told you I’m running over 20 servers. Try running 20 raspberry pi’s 😀

        My resources are being shared for around 20W of power.

  • Notorious@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    It’s not that difficult to get a Pi 4. I wrote a python script that scraped rpilocator’s rss feed every 5 minutes and would notify my phone when one was available in the US. It went off basically every day around 8:30am PST when Adafruit would drop 100+ Pi4s. I’ve picked up two in the past week (one for my Voron printer and another for a RetroPi cabinet). They did sell out fairly fast… in about 10 minutes or so.

    • homelabber@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      The thing is that right now it’s not worth it to buy a raspberry pi if you want to selfhost. It is 4 years old at this point but it cost 50% more than when it was released.

    • saucyloggins@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Sorry I have to laugh at this. If you have to write a script for it even if the script is easy there’s no way I can consider it “not hard”. Not hard is just being able buy it like anything else.

      I get what you’re saying though.

      • Notorious@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I didn’t realize it would be so easy when I wrote the script. Knowing what I know now I’d just check adafruit every couple minutes starting a bit before 8:30am PST.

      • Perhyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Hard for a “layperson”, maybe. But IMHO for someone interested in self-hosting this probably should not be a hard problem to solve, or at least a decent “warmup exercise” to see if you’d like it.

        I say this because you don’t even need to write the script yourself, there are plenty of preexisting applications that can be configured to notify you of updates to an RSS feed.

        I’m sure I could whip that up in changedetection.io or Node-RED pretty quickly, for example.

        I don’t use a dedicated RSS feed reader app, but I’d also be somewhat surprised if there isn’t one that supports some form of push notifications.