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    • Embedded "in-wall" raspberry screen

      DesT

      Just to start a new thread...

      I received last week some kit (3) from Gazouta:tech

      Gazouta Technologies  /  Jul 14, 2018 Professional Wall Mount for Raspberry Pi Touchscreen (Black Anodized Aluminum) | Gazouta Technologies Professional Wall Mount for Raspberry Pi Touchscreen (Black Anodized Aluminum) | Gazouta Technologies

      This kit will allow you to install a Raspberry Pi Computer and an Official Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen as a wall mounted touch controller.

      I will work on that in the incoming days/week, the goal it's to put at least one in the main entrance to "replace" the alarm keyboard and they other one in the master bedroom to control "scene".

      Will need to figure out some dashboard for that and will probably check also to send some IP camera feed too!

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    • Jetson Nano

      rafale77

      With the price of these little buggers dropping, I am finding more and more the nVidia Jetson nano attractive as a self contained platform to run openLuup/z-way/Home Assistant and all the HomeKit/Alexa bridges of course with a couple of sticks for zigbee and zwave. Because of the included GPU, it can do faster video processing and be a development platform for further ventures into AI and a potential alternative to the rPi4... Enticing for <$100?

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    • Inconsistent

      prophead

      Im very frustrated with my new pi. I have 2 pis running on ssds with no sd card great. But for the life of me I can’t get it to boot from the exact same model of ssd that works on my other pi. I also can’t get the new pi to boot from old known working sd card. I tried burning new image onto ssd, known working image, in fact the only way it will boot is with the noobs card it came with. I thought pi3s didn’t have any firmware it was all software, but thats all I can think of. I am stumped. No, I don’t want to boot off sd card. Is it a bad pi? I did every single step multiple times. I know how to do this, ive done it twice. What’s going on?
      |-<:/

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    • RPi 2

      C

      Any reason why I shouldn’t repurpose a RPi 2 that I have laying around do run openLuup? I know a lot of people seem to be using v3.

      Thanks

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    • Portable pi power

      prophead

      Is there any way I can run my pi on portable battery power for short period of time? My plan is to take that zway server to each of the zwave devices rather then the other way around. Does that make sense?

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    • PSA upgrade your Pi’s to ssd

      prophead

      I just upgraded one of my pi’s from sd to ssd. Huge speed increase. Stop what you’re doing and do that now if you haven’t already
      |-<:)

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    PSA upgrade your Pi’s to ssd

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    • prophead
      prophead last edited by

      I just upgraded one of my pi’s from sd to ssd. Huge speed increase. Stop what you’re doing and do that now if you haven’t already
      |-<:)

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      • DesT
        DesT last edited by

        All my pi are using msata

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        • prophead
          prophead @DesT last edited by

          @DesT I don't even know what that is. Is it faster than ssd?

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          • rafale77
            rafale77 @prophead last edited by rafale77

            @prophead

            No it is a format of SSD. It is short of microSATA. It is SATA in the form form of a small PCB card which you insert into a socket. Very similar to the current M.2 SSD standard except it uses the SATA communication bus which is much more limited that through the direct PCIe. You did well with the SSD. That’s what I did too for all my devices. It was the idea behind extroot for the vera. Beyond speed it is really a reliability improvement. Can read my post on storage here which explains why.

            https://smarthome.community/topic/37/understanding-the-flash-memory-endurance-problem

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            • prophead
              prophead last edited by

              Might as well ask here, what do you all think of the 4’s? I’m worried about heat. My 3s have been rock solid. Which is more than I can say for their more expensive brothers.

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              • rafale77
                rafale77 last edited by

                I am concerned about the rPi4 heat and peak power consumption. They seem to require more power to boot so regular 2Amps power are not enough any more. At this power level, I don't quite see their advantage over the atomic Pi which is cheaper and more powerful and more flexible in terms of software and hardware. If you already have a 3+ then no reason to change. If you feel the need to change, I would probably not choose a rPi4. There are better SBC choices now.

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                • CatmanV2
                  CatmanV2 @prophead last edited by

                  @prophead said in PSA upgrade your Pi’s to ssd:

                  I just upgraded one of my pi’s from sd to ssd. Huge speed increase. Stop what you’re doing and do that now if you haven’t already
                  |-<:)

                  Vis USB or some other funkiness? I was looking at this the other day, but my Pi's don't so far need any more speed (Volumio, XBMC and minidnla) but I can imagine a Z-wave device might well benefit....

                  <tan> I upgraded my 2015 iMac last weekend, with some trepidation. Power on to a stable desktop went from over 7 minutes to 59 seconds 😄

                  C

                  The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....

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                  • prophead
                    prophead last edited by

                    My post must be longer then these three letters
                    USB

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                    • CatmanV2
                      CatmanV2 @prophead last edited by

                      @prophead Cool.

                      C

                      The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....

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                      • prophead
                        prophead last edited by

                        A, its a pi

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                        • DesT
                          DesT last edited by

                          We (me and also PointPub Media) stop using rPI and we switch to rock64 and rockpro64 (pine64.org)

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                          • DesT
                            DesT @prophead last edited by

                            @prophead said in PSA upgrade your Pi’s to ssd:

                            @DesT I don't even know what that is. Is it faster than ssd?

                            As @rafale77 explain it's like SSD but you can find little board that you can mount on your rPI and use a mSATA disk!

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                            • Black Cat
                              Black Cat @DesT last edited by Black Cat

                              @DesT Do you have a link for this piece of hardware, I have no idea of what it looks like?

                              aka Zedrally

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                              • rafale77
                                rafale77 last edited by rafale77

                                It's not "like" an SSD. It is a SATA SSD in a different form factor.

                                Here is an example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MWSKWCT

                                These are light years faster and more reliable than eMMC and SD Cards.
                                Not the simplest to use on a rPi... It's much easier to go with SATA for these.

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                                • Black Cat
                                  Black Cat @rafale77 last edited by

                                  @rafale77 Thx's, I can see it's a good solution but the adaptor card is nearly 4* the price of the SSD or there an another solution?

                                  aka Zedrally

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                                  • rafale77
                                    rafale77 last edited by rafale77

                                    @DesT mentioned this because he is not using a rPi but a pine64 /rock pines which do support these forms of storage natively. I would just get a regular 2.5” SATA SSD with a USB to SATA adapter. The same thing I used to extroot the vera.
                                    I actually have all of my rPi run that way. They all have an SD card with a boot loader only and then loads the OS from the external USB SSD.

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                                    • DesT
                                      DesT last edited by

                                      @rafale77 Nah I'm talking about my raspberry!

                                      On my pine64/rock I'm using eMMC directly on board but all our raspberry are using something like:

                                      5c574636-a819-4867-af12-5e741fa3377a-image.png OR something like

                                      324b62de-5e3a-4e8b-b1d5-8ba2cb2e9e3c-image.png

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                                      • DesT
                                        DesT last edited by

                                        AND I will suggest to boot directly FROM THE USB without using a SD Card to boot!

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                                          ArcherS last edited by

                                          This is how I run my Z-way Pi 3B+, i.e. boot directly from the SSD.
                                          I have connected a 2.5” external USB case that I put an old SSD into. The Pi seems a bit finnicky when it comes to USB drive chipsets, the first one I tried did not work.
                                          Pi 3B+ is ready for boot from USB out of the box, which is why I choose it. You just copy the .img onto the SSD and you are good to go.
                                          The speed after the SSD swap is quite a bit faster. The major upside I hope, should however be the reliability.

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                                          • akbooer
                                            akbooer last edited by

                                            This is not what you’re serving the forum from, is it? 😉

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