Last Updated on October 7, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
FloatingBoater James Derrick from the Home Assistant forum:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/will-a-raspberry-pi-3-do/
- « A 3B+ is OK, but not great for ESPhome compiles
- a Pi model 3 “feels” about half the CPU of a 3 model B+ .
- The Pi 3 model B+ was the first Pi that “felt usable” as a desktop PC.
- Anything older is basically a digital sign, or a microprocessor with added screen.
- HASS on my Home Assistant Yellow is currently using 1MB RAM, which is going to make a mess of a SD card when it tries to swap with only 512Mb of physical RAM.
- As others have said, there are Intel-based alternatives
- ‘NUC’ is not the only option as companies are selling small form factor PCs from call centres cheaply
- although Andreas Spiess slightly overstates the case for YT…):«
Swiss YouTuber Andreas Spiess recommended used thin clients ( or one liter PC’s) as alternatives to Pi’s during Corona:
But thin clients are not suitable for our mobile application. So what to do?