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What do you mean by cratered? Biggest issue I had was using a raspberry Pi and having the sd card fail. There’s addons for regular backups to cloud storage, an

by tass 4y ago

What do you mean by cratered? Biggest issue I had was using a raspberry Pi and having the sd card fail. There’s addons for regular backups to cloud storage, and also alternatives to using an sd card - I now use an odroid

Semaphor 4y ago
Same, SD card failure was the only failure I ever had. Nowadays, I just run an SSD instead.
- theshrike79 4y ago
  I just grabbed a cheap Lenovo Thinkcenter Mini and don't bother with raspberries at all :)
spacemanmatt 4y ago
> cratered Quit working. One or more critical modules would fail beyond my ability/interest to repair in a foreign container-manager based application. Or the thing would quit booting. I guess I could try different SD cards but the ones I had were serving fine with raspbian before. The first time it failed, I tried to join the community but found it exceptionally hostile before I even had a chance to seek regular support.
- tass 4y ago
  I have had the following variety of problems: * very occasional post upgrade problem which was fixed by the next upgrade or just a restore * zigbee radio occasional issue which turned out to be a bug with the dongle firmware. Upgrading the firmware sorted me out. (Basically, I sometimes needed to power cycle before the zigbee network was functional) * SD card corruption. This was the biggest pain, and required building the system from scratch once (since the backups were on the same card - oops!) and from backup one other time. I never once had an issue after moving away from using sd cards that needed more than a restart - and this was maybe once in the last 6 months. I suspect the upgrade problems I previously had were also corruption related. If you were willing to try again, I highly recommend the odroid with eMMC - it’s also more powerful (though pricier) than a raspberry Pi 4 along with being generally neater since all the plugs attach on one side and it doesn’t need an external usb for its disk.
  - spacemanmatt 4y ago
    I may be burned. My first oDroid order was dead on arrival and I got into HomeAssistant when it was still common to brick your whole setup just updating plugins.

by tass 4y ago

Semaphor 4y ago

Same, SD card failure was the only failure I ever had. Nowadays, I just run an SSD instead.

theshrike79 4y ago
I just grabbed a cheap Lenovo Thinkcenter Mini and don't bother with raspberries at all :)

spacemanmatt 4y ago

> cratered Quit working. One or more critical modules would fail beyond my ability/interest to repair in a foreign container-manager based application. Or the thing would quit booting. I guess I could try different SD cards but the ones I had were serving fine with raspbian before. The first time it failed, I tried to join the community but found it exceptionally hostile before I even had a chance to seek regular support.

tass 4y ago
I have had the following variety of problems: * very occasional post upgrade problem which was fixed by the next upgrade or just a restore * zigbee radio occasional issue which turned out to be a bug with the dongle firmware. Upgrading the firmware sorted me out. (Basically, I sometimes needed to power cycle before the zigbee network was functional) * SD card corruption. This was the biggest pain, and required building the system from scratch once (since the backups were on the same card - oops!) and from backup one other time. I never once had an issue after moving away from using sd cards that needed more than a restart - and this was maybe once in the last 6 months. I suspect the upgrade problems I previously had were also corruption related. If you were willing to try again, I highly recommend the odroid with eMMC - it’s also more powerful (though pricier) than a raspberry Pi 4 along with being generally neater since all the plugs attach on one side and it doesn’t need an external usb for its disk.
- spacemanmatt 4y ago
  I may be burned. My first oDroid order was dead on arrival and I got into HomeAssistant when it was still common to brick your whole setup just updating plugins.