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"Run on a raspberry pi" is a little tricky. You seem to need an SSD, or else some careful configuration of what to include and exclude from logs, if you don't
by eternityforest 4y ago
"Run on a raspberry pi" is a little tricky. You seem to need an SSD, or else some careful configuration of what to include and exclude from logs, if you don't want the disk to corrupt in a year or two.
It's a wonderful project but I wish they would be more careful about SD wear.
- Nextgrid 4y agoCounterpoint: I've got 2 instances running for several years now using their default Raspberry Pi image and still no issues.
- alin23 4y agoI’ve just had one SD card with HomeAssistant on it, fail on me last week after a power cut. It’s easy to fall into this fallacy of “it’s been working fine until now, so it will keep working”, I had the same thinking. Luckily I was doing restic [1] backups daily to my Hetzner box, and my last HA backup was there, so I didn’t have to start from scratch. But it’s still annoying to have to buy another SD, flash it and find a way to restore the backup just to get your home running again. [1] https://restic.net/ https://restic.net/
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoThere must be some way to get at least a SATA SSD onto a raspberry without too much hassle. A cursory google search revealed lots of blogposts, videos etc on doing exactly that. Also, if you're using an Rpi, it's also because you like tinkering, so more tinkering could be seen as a bonus :)
- eternityforest 4y agoThat's one good reason to use a RasPi, the other is just that they are rock solid, almost bulletproof devices you can really trust, as long as you don't hammer the SD card. Also, they are affordable, small, and low power, and an actually good SSD kinda messes that up.
- oaththrowaway 4y agoRunning an SSD on a rPi 4b is pretty trivial
- Avamander 4y agoI made a post on their forum how to mount HASS logs out of the container onto a tmpfs to avoid pointless wear.