timselectric
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I believe so.
Mine works perfectly.
Solar assistant: do you use it?
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Mine works perfectly.
MaikaiLife
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I haven't seen anyone mention these devices, I currently have one at a few properties. You can run 2 IP cameras with it, it does cloud backups, DNS, VPN, NAS features and a whole lot more, best of all it runs a VM's which is where I have HA running.
They're as little as $300 without drives, but there is a smaller model if desired, if I could only get SA to run as a VM I would be set with this single device running all my solar and home automation services, cameras, VPN, and network/cloud backups. Pretty amazing device for the price and it's not all dangled together with USB accessories.
They're as little as $300 without drives, but there is a smaller model if desired, if I could only get SA to run as a VM I would be set with this single device running all my solar and home automation services, cameras, VPN, and network/cloud backups. Pretty amazing device for the price and it's not all dangled together with USB accessories.
As I said previously. Raspberry Pi's (other than the Zero and Zero W / W2) do not use USB power supplies. They have a USB connector for power, and they use a similar voltage, but it needs to be over 5V. Sometimes you get lucky and get something that outputs a high enough voltage to make them happy, but most of the time that's not the case.
This provides a good explanation of the problem:
Raspberry PI 3 "Under Voltage" - Raspberry Pi Forums
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I haven't seen anyone mention these devices, I currently have one at a few properties. You can run 2 IP cameras with it, it does cloud backups, DNS, VPN, NAS features and a whole lot more, best of all it runs a VM's which is where I have HA running.
They're as little as $300 without drives, but there is a smaller model if desired, if I could only get SA to run as a VM I would be set with this single device running all my solar and home automation services, cameras, VPN, and network/cloud backups. Pretty amazing device for the price and it's not all dangled together with USB accessories.
I run Home Assistant (and many other things) using Docker on a Synology DS220+. Very nice device.
I also highly recommend Celeron-based mini-PCs over Pi-like SBCs unless you need the GPIO. You can get them very cheap on Amazon. You can put Linux on them if you want, or, since they generally come with Windows Pro, you can even start an RDP server on them and run them remotely running Windows. Just avoid the Atom processors, which a are very slow.
realpinochet
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Should be able to run in a linux container under proxmox very easily since it's native.
42OhmsPA
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Thanks. I have that one in my cart and was going to order until I saw a review saying it lasted 3 months with a 48v setup.
Thank you.
Thank you for the education. That likely explains why the usb power bank wouldn't boot it either.As I said previously. Raspberry Pi's (other than the Zero and Zero W / W2) do not use USB power supplies. They have a USB connector for power, and they use a similar voltage, but it needs to be over 5V. Sometimes you get lucky and get something that outputs a high enough voltage to make them happy, but most of the time that's not the case.
This provides a good explanation of the problem:
Raspberry PI 3 "Under Voltage" - Raspberry Pi Forums
Umm that's what that post is showing. Its the status screen from my proxmox server running a linux container with home assistant in it. Well that and about another 5 or so servers that run under proxmox on that machine.
realpinochet
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Ok, I didn't see where you said container and the status screen is for the host so I thought I'd point out containers. I prefer to run Linux containers if possible, in fact I prefer them over docker at this point if docker isn't a requirement. Nice to see another proxmox user.
Tulex
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Where is the "I used to but it burned up my EG4" option?
Sorry.....
Sorry.....
Its handy. I use that proxmox server to run mirror images of the hosting machines. This way I can test stuff "live" without messing with the real production servers.
I also have an android container that I use to run all of the android stuff from my phone so I can check car battery info and other android only apps.
It runs a minimum of 5 virtual machines 24/7 but I have run over 30 on it at times. Fans are noisy under any real load but its a powerhouse when it comes to running stuff. It has 8 front eject-able drives with 6 15k drives in raid 6 and 2 normal drives for backups and temp stuff in a nice 1u form factor.
realpinochet
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Cool, what are you using for the android container software wise..something in github?
Mirlen
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I'm using Victron VRM with a Raspberry Pi 2 I had laying around...but only connected to the charge controller 'cause my solar funds have run out for now so no shunt or decent inverter. I may pickup an AIO like an MPP once I get some funds to move make the move to 48v.
It's the best, plus using home assistant as well.
Tulex
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So with nearly 150 votes in, nearly 2/3 use or plan to use it. That actually surprised me. Sounds video worthy.
Count me in as well. I run about 10 VMs on a 2-Nuc cluster with an 8-bay Synology NAS for storage. Haven't really played with containers much, but as it is time to do some OS upgrades I get the value.
wattmatters
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How do you view poll results?
If you have voted its at the top of the page.
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We need to talk ?
wattmatters
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timselectric
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This will change once they see what they are missing.
If will does the video.
shopman
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I've been running it on a Zero 2W for the past year and a half with no problems. It really is a great piece of software but I do wish he'd take down the two "coming soon" attractions in the changelog. It's been over a year and neither one ever happens; they just get pushed back a month with every release.
solarhombre
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I've used https://a.co/d/4El6FAB for a Pi3 before I switched to a miniPC. Input 8-60V, output 5V 3A, perhaps an inline fuse would be good too.
wattmatters
Solar Wizard
He may, who knows?
I know Will has said in previous videos he wasn't all that interested with system monitoring/data capture. I felt he was in the camp that either he didn't have time/interest for it or felt that if you need constant monitoring you just need more battery / PV capacity. That's certainly a legitimate position.
For me it helps to optimise use of the limited equipment I do have, work on ways to optimise production and self sufficiency while minimising energy imported from the grid. I can't just add more capacity super easily and attempting to eliminate the grid would require an order of magnitude more resources.
Plus its a hobby. I like assessing and analysing.
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