HA restarts several times a day! Is this normal?

[in2deep (Markus)]

@paddy0174

but with 2A power supply, you can run the PI, but only without any further dongles or SSDs

I doubt that

@paddy0174

And there shouldn’t be any power intensive tasks, like compiling an ESPHome firmware or extended DB updates.

And that even more.

Let’s just check the power usage of a Pi 3+

Raspberry Pi Power Consumption Data - Raspberry Pi Spy

and just in case second source:

How Much Power Does Raspberry Pi 3B+ Use? Power Measurements – RasPi.TV

So to me it looks like the current consumption overall doesn’t really go beyond 0.7A @ 5V

And that’s actually something I can confirm as I use Pi 3(+)'s with 1.2A and 1.5A power bricks and even peripherals without any troubles.

Another thing is that if one uses a 2 or 2.4A power brick with micro USB for a Pi it’s almost guranteed that this currents will not reach the Pi actually because the micro USB specifications define a “maximum” of 1.8A@5V for a good reason - the tiny connectors on the micro usb connector/socket will heat up because of the high resistance