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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 06/11/2023
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I got 2/3 of the lawn mowed and 2/3 of the house clean so it was a pretty productive day yesterday.
I also moved my Raspberry Pi server setup onto an old laptop, with the intention of doing more with photos or media in general. It's a pretty old laptop but seems to out perform the Pi.
I'm thinking I might go full home assistant OS on the Pi. I'm pretty keen to try out voice stuff since my last hope Mycroft went bankrupt and so isn't gonna give me a non-spying voice assistant.
If you do use the Pi for Home Assistant, save a lot of future headaches and use a proper SSD and not a SD card - there are always soooo many people having issues with SD cards after a while.
If you are thinking you're going to be investing a good bit of time in the future with Home Assistant (you will as it's a hell of a rabbit hole) apparently Pi's are quite slow to work with.
A used PC (small form factor for about $200 with a 5 or 6 gen i5 CPU that ends with T and 4 gig of ram) is a suuuper snappy, future proof and reliable system to run HA on. Mine only uses ~10watt and is automating my whole house.
I've used the Pi for running many services and already had an SSD for it, I don't trust SD cards at all.
I've just moved all my services to an old laptop, my Home Assistant only has a small number of integrations at the moment but if it grows I'll be sure to get a more appropriatly powered PC, thanks for the tip 🙂