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hardware consistency and gpio are pretty big factors. rpi as a compute/media node has always sort of been secondary compared to the software/hat ecosystem -- t
by serf 3y ago
hardware consistency and gpio are pretty big factors.
rpi as a compute/media node has always sort of been secondary compared to the software/hat ecosystem -- there have essentially always been better SBC choices for those workloads/media-center-ing.
personally if I wanted a media-center/nas/small-server i'd go with one of the dozens of SBCs that have onboard sata and save myself the hassle of doing it all over an overloaded usb hub.
- zrail 3y agoGPIO is doable on a mini PC. For example, there are Raspberry Pi Pico firmwares out there that present as a normal gpiochip. I recently set up a pico with 3D printer firmware (Klipper, specifically) so I could control power to my actual printer, which actually works surprisingly well.