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Slightly OT: > Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi If you can get hold of one! I've been looking for a Pi4 for ages to use with PiHole but sold out everywhere, s

Slightly OT: > Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi If you can get hold of one! I've been looking for a Pi4 for ages to use with PiHole but sold out everywhere, some have back orders for 2023 O_O Anyone got any recommendations of other devices that work well with PiHole? I have a Mac Mini acting as a home server but from what I've read, PiHole does not run great on it via Docker...

ComradePhil 5y ago
I tried running PiHole on a Windows box using Docker Desktop. It worked for a bit but it stopped working at some point... and I didn't bother fixing. It had been working fine for so long on my RPi. You can buy fanless celeron mini-computers from Aliexpress for $100-$150. You can also get i5/i7 if you are willing to pay a lot more. Most of them come with pirated Windows (some sellers even say that they'll send it with Ubuntu pre-installed) but you can simply remove it and install Ubuntu Server and then install PiHole, Home Assistant or whatever you want.
squarefoot 5y ago
> If you can get hold of one! You don't need any in fact. It's Python so it runs on any powerful enough Linux platform, and there's a boatload of them out there; the Raspberry Pi is just the 1st one to become popular and it's the most advertised. Hoarders depleted all stocks to sell them overpriced? Well, screw them, we're going to the competition instead. Here's a list, updated yearly, of the most known Linux boards available with data and prices. https://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-136-open-spec-community-backed-linux-sbcs-under-200/ https://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-136-open-spec-community-b... Take a look also at the devices supported by Armbian and DietPi. https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported https://dietpi.com/#download https://dietpi.com/#download Also worth visiting is the Linux-sunxi site, where you can find a huge load of open documentation about hardware and software for Allwinner CPUs used in some of these boards. https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page Also available are Amlogic CPUs docs at the Hardkernel site. https://dn.odroid.com/ https://dn.odroid.com/ Example: here's the over 1000 pages long S905x3 full data sheet. https://dn.odroid.com/S905X3/ODROID-C4/Docs/S905X3_Public_Datasheet_Hardkernel.pdf https://dn.odroid.com/S905X3/ODROID-C4/Docs/S905X3_Public_Da... The public Raspberry Pi CPU data sheet is 166 pages long.
- moffkalast 5y ago
  It's probably not worth going much past something that's also super popular like an ODroid. Otherwise you'll just be spending an inordinate amount of hours trying to figure out obscure bugs that the non-existent community hasn't yet fixed for you. I once made the mistake of buying a Banana Pi M2 Zero. Specs were great, support looked decent, I thought I'll be getting a Pi 3 in a Zero form factor. What I instead got was a thing nobody uses on which barely anything runs properly with such flaky wifi that it's practically useless. Never again.
arcbyte 5y ago
They only made 150k in all of 2021, so we're seeing the result of that right now. Good news is they're expecting to make 250k in Q1 2022 with 500k planned for Q2.
- coder543 5y ago
  Source? That sounds like fun information to track.
  - arcbyte 5y ago
    Looks like I misremembered the numbers a bit. 250k in all of 2021. 150k in Q1 2022. Still planning for 500k in Q2. https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1486107991271260168 https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1486107991271260...
driverdan 5y ago
Pihole will run on anything and works fine in Docker. I'm currently running it via docker on a Pi but will eventually move it to a more standard server with other services.

ComradePhil 5y ago

I tried running PiHole on a Windows box using Docker Desktop. It worked for a bit but it stopped working at some point... and I didn't bother fixing. It had been working fine for so long on my RPi. You can buy fanless celeron mini-computers from Aliexpress for $100-$150. You can also get i5/i7 if you are willing to pay a lot more. Most of them come with pirated Windows (some sellers even say that they'll send it with Ubuntu pre-installed) but you can simply remove it and install Ubuntu Server and then install PiHole, Home Assistant or whatever you want.

squarefoot 5y ago

> If you can get hold of one! You don't need any in fact. It's Python so it runs on any powerful enough Linux platform, and there's a boatload of them out there; the Raspberry Pi is just the 1st one to become popular and it's the most advertised. Hoarders depleted all stocks to sell them overpriced? Well, screw them, we're going to the competition instead. Here's a list, updated yearly, of the most known Linux boards available with data and prices. https://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-136-open-spec-community-backed-linux-sbcs-under-200/ https://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-136-open-spec-community-b... Take a look also at the devices supported by Armbian and DietPi. https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported https://dietpi.com/#download https://dietpi.com/#download Also worth visiting is the Linux-sunxi site, where you can find a huge load of open documentation about hardware and software for Allwinner CPUs used in some of these boards. https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page Also available are Amlogic CPUs docs at the Hardkernel site. https://dn.odroid.com/ https://dn.odroid.com/ Example: here's the over 1000 pages long S905x3 full data sheet. https://dn.odroid.com/S905X3/ODROID-C4/Docs/S905X3_Public_Datasheet_Hardkernel.pdf https://dn.odroid.com/S905X3/ODROID-C4/Docs/S905X3_Public_Da... The public Raspberry Pi CPU data sheet is 166 pages long.

moffkalast 5y ago
It's probably not worth going much past something that's also super popular like an ODroid. Otherwise you'll just be spending an inordinate amount of hours trying to figure out obscure bugs that the non-existent community hasn't yet fixed for you. I once made the mistake of buying a Banana Pi M2 Zero. Specs were great, support looked decent, I thought I'll be getting a Pi 3 in a Zero form factor. What I instead got was a thing nobody uses on which barely anything runs properly with such flaky wifi that it's practically useless. Never again.

arcbyte 5y ago

They only made 150k in all of 2021, so we're seeing the result of that right now. Good news is they're expecting to make 250k in Q1 2022 with 500k planned for Q2.

coder543 5y ago
Source? That sounds like fun information to track.
- arcbyte 5y ago
  Looks like I misremembered the numbers a bit. 250k in all of 2021. 150k in Q1 2022. Still planning for 500k in Q2. https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1486107991271260168 https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1486107991271260...

driverdan 5y ago

Pihole will run on anything and works fine in Docker. I'm currently running it via docker on a Pi but will eventually move it to a more standard server with other services.