Hello community,
I got an opportunity to get a HP Elite 800 G5 with an old Pentium G5420, 3,8 Ghz and 8 GB for free.
I have my HAOS running on an Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM.
Now is the question would it have any upsides to migrate?
And if I would migrate, is there a way to test the configuration for a while and if it isnt good is there a way to reverse everything easily?
Thanks for your help.
IMHO not really. Your power consumption will most likely increase. The RPi operates at 4-5 W, whereas the HP Elite will consume 6-8 W when idle and up to 80W at peak.
Certainly. You can backup your RPi setup, disconnect it and import the backup into a new setup on your HP, provided the same version is installed on both computers.
Ok thanks, do you know which Intel CPU would be an upgrade. (Node Red and Studios are a bit slow)
Maybe I would like to use a local LLM (lama), ttv and/ or person video tracing.
What is affordable, and not to overtuned for that kind of stuff?
I was not sure if there will be a problem with IP and MAC adress if I just swap them.
You should of course assign the same IP to the HP. Disconnect the RPi from the network first!
Mmh, you didn’t mention that you expérience performance issues. Obviously more power is always welcome. However, the RPi4 is not that slim. Do you see issues in daily use, or is it simply the graph display when you are setting up automations?
Once you go into the AI arena then the specs change dramatically, and a fast GPU will be more of use than the CPU. Either plan to do the LLM etc on dedicated hardware or pick the specs on your AI needs and the hardware will be way overpowered for HA. Note that some say a macbook pro is the best hardware to run a local LLM. You can very likely do with less, but it does give you some idea.
Personally I’d run HA on a RPI4 or NUC with an N100 cpu (the latter is still overpowered) and use dedicated hardware for AI, so they won’t compete for the CPU.
As said, if you have performance problems, that is weird on an RPI4 with 8GB. You should first look into that and determine the cause of the perceived slowness. I ran an RPI with 20 addons just fine, but which addons you use make all the difference. If you misidentify the cause you’ll have the same problem using more expensive hardware.