ivory crown
Hi all, I'm a pretty low end user of HA that is looking to up my game. I've started buying some more devices and want to upgrade my hardware to handle that(more automations, zigbee AND zwave, etc...).
Either way, I'd like to future proof my set up a bit and upgrade my raspberry pi 3. What's the recommended hardware these days? I assumed getting a rpi4/5 would be the move but I'm seeing a lot of information online about people recommending NUCs. What's the more popular way to go these days?
muted eagle
imho, the most limiting factor for doing advanced stuff on a pi 4 or 5 is the sd card. i tell people that a usb3 to sata cable from aliexpress costs almost nothing, and most tinkerers probably have a spare low capacity ssd in a drawer. it will be a massive upgrade compared to the sd card in terms of waiting for io, especially if you run anything database-like. node-red, mariadb, influxdb will all get a very big speedup on a pi 4 by getting rid of that bottleneck.
i think that is also a reason people move to nuc's. they perform better under heavy load simply because they are more balanced. i really hope the pi 6 has m.2 slot onboard.
ivory crown
stupid question, do any of these devices come with integrated zwave or zigbee chips?
muted eagle
i don't think so
ivory crown
hmm looks like the yellow does indeed have a zigbee component on it https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow
downside is that it's a rpi4 and the 5 is out and more powerful