I have been using Home Assistant and Hass.io on a RPi3 B+ for almost a year now and I am ready to upgrade my hardware. What would you recommend? What are the pros/cons of each option? Thanks for you input

I use a RPI4 since 5 months (4GB model) without any hassle. Running these Addons: Configurator ESPHome Glances Mosquitto Broker Pi-Hole Portainer SSH & Web Terminal WireGuard and developing some addons on this system. Pretty beefy the RPI 4 :slight_smile: The only flaw in my opinion is the SD …

Thanks for you input. In average, how much time does it take to restart? The SD card issue is one of the main reasons I haven’t switched to the RPi4, it happened to me once already with my current configuration. I had backups but still a hassle.

Wow ! Talk about throwing a handgrenade into a room full of extremists … “Now Gathered Clerics of ALL the world’s Religions … What is the best Religion and Why ?” :rofl:

:rofl: Good point, but it has not been too bad.

I’m running USB Passthrough just fine using both the HUSBZB-1 and Aeotec Z-Wave stick on my Workstation 15 VM running on my Server 2012 R2 box. The only issue I have is that every so often after a reboot the /dev/ path will change from 0 to 1 or vice-versa. Only takes a quick comment and uncomment i…

What @ab0tj said, if you have 24/7 hardware already there’s no point in spending any extra and so much faster than a Pi. Disaster recovery is a two minute job if you back up the VM and easy to have multiple versions if you want to trial new things. I run VMWare on my HTPC/server/anything else i ca…

If your offered the device named path too, eg /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Texas_Instruments_TI_CC2531_USB_CDC_etc, use that instead and you shouldn’t get that problem anymore.

A little bit late to the conversation, but I also use an NUC. It’s an i3 from 2013, 8GB RAM and 120GB SSD. It runs Ubuntu Server with Docker and it’s blazing fast! Never had a problem. I think NUCs from 2013 you can get for pretty cheap.

Another NUC user here. Went from RPi3+ -> VM -> NUC. I run HA within Docker as well. I prefer the NUC for one big reason: you can now multi-task it, run other applications such as Pi-hole, etc, and you won’t have to worry about overtaxing it like an RPi. RPi’s are good for single purpose apps, bu…

[image] dgaust: I was using a VM for about a year, but once I wanted to add the z-wave and zigbee sticks I started running into trouble. I tried VirtualHere to pass the devices through (USB over IP) but there was some instability. Just look for tutorials on how to pass through usb devices or …

Should I upgrade to RPi4 or use a VM machine?

Installation Home Assistant OS

klogg (Klogg) January 30, 2020, 12:54pm 27

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