Definitely time to upgrade. I had a Pi3 and pretty quickly ran into that same limitation. Personally I think 4GB is the minimum if you’re upgrading anyway.
Thanks. Definitely, i’m going to upgrade. It’s been many years running HA on a Pi. It’s time to move to something with a little more power and stability (not depending on SD cards). I might go for an Intel NUC with 8 GM of RAM or similar.
I went with an old laptop I had sitting on a shelf collecting dust. Honestly never even checked the specs, but night and day quicker than my Pi 3. Just tossing it out there as a cheap/free upgrade option. I even replaced the battery so I have a built-in UPS and upped the RAM to 8GB for a few bucks.
RPI3 runs at about 5-6 W. Laptop will run a good bit higher I suspect closer to 20 W. If you want to extend the battery life limit the change and discharge levels to 20-80% capacity. My experience at work is UPS work well until you need them.
In my case it runs just over 10W, a little more than a Pi but would still take a long time to offset the cost of buying something new. I’ll keep it until it dies or I have something else on-hand that’s better.
Agreed, although in my case I don’t really need it (none of my other network equipment has a UPS). The motherboard also appears to be managing the charge in an intelligent way, so I’m not worried. I honestly only bought it to cover the occasional power-flicker; the laptop doesn’t automatically turn back on when power is restored and it’s off.
My laptops aren’t fit for much when I’ve finished with them after 6 years. I have salvaged a few 18650’s from them that I use in outdoor solar projects. Currently using a small CPU fan from a desktop I bought back in 2000 to cool my rpi4. The heat sink is on my RTL-SDR. Hate to throw any tech away. Desolder every capacitor I can find.
Finally, I decided to go for a miniPC with a N100 processor, 16 GB RAM and 512 SSD NVMe (Beelink 12 Pro).
I will install HA over Proxmox. I like this setup because I’m also running a Audiobookshelf and Plex servers, which I can move to Proxmox on that machine
I finally moved my HA instance from the Pi 3 to a Beelink miniPC. Installed Proxmox, restored HA from a backup and… everything running way much faster! I should’ve done this before! Impressive performance now
welcome to proxmox
you are not gonna go back lol
i also moved my routing capabilities to proxmox (a openwrt VM), a dedicated LXC for downloading (in a dmz), jellyfin, openmediavault and nextcloud
you’ll see how fast you are going to consume 16Gb of ram