I'm never putting one of these in my home.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'll get a lot of hate for this but when you say pi you mean pi4. I kept seeing this HA on lemmy and tried it on a pi2. I don't know if it worked or not, it's a very bloated piece of software. After an hour of waiting I installed docker and the HA instance on my main server (which is ancient) in under a minute.

It's cool and all but my feit dimmers require some pcb work and flashing to be compatible so verify what devices you have before you hop in.

I used to have an automated building running on a bare 386 and a floppy drive. Hate on me all you want but sending simple commands like turn device on shouldn't require a giant software package but otherwise HA is neat, just a lot of overhead i can't exactly justify.

Worth trying out though.

I think reflow stole a lot of their code.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    No hate from me.

    Just about every project I've started with a pi has ended up working out a lot better as a vm on an x86 host. But lots of people seem to love them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair It has its uses i suppose. I've had one running pihole since the original pi came out. Used PI2s in the past for OSMC and, even better, ambilight.

    I think now a cheap android TV box you can flash is probably better for a simple less than 5watt device.

    Besides the HA test I've been trying to use one to be an openvpn TAP interface but it's been a fight and i think you just convinced me to do it in another docker instance on the server and save myself some headaches.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    PiVPN was actually one of the things I thought the HW handled pretty well. Other than how much it ends up getting throttled by the 100Mbps link.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It seems like it would but the pivpn install script always hangs on me whether i I select openvpn or wireguard. Based on some reading I was lead to believe I needed to just use raw openvpn for a TAP interface. I've tried a few times but I always end up with CA issues or just flat out failure to connect.

    It should be pretty simple, I'm just trying to bridge my network to a single remote device connected via cellular gateway. Maybe I'm just out of my depth. I've done it before with an old NAS years ago but I've tried a few step by step guides and no dice.

    If you have any tips that'd be great!

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