Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)
by thrwyoilarticle on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:03PM
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I walked into the Cambridge Raspberry Pi shop on launch day and bought a Pi 4, a power supply, and an SD card with NOOBS. It isn't my hardware that's at fault and, even if it was, it doesn't excuse developing hardware that doesn't work with in-spec USB-C power supplies and depends on inherently fragile storage media.
Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)
by syntheticnature on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:18PM
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I missed this -- but my comment elsewhere about the FW update for overheating definitely applies for a launch day Pi4!
This is anecdata from my part, but I’ve got eight or 10 Pis running (Flightaware/ADSBexchange, PiHole/Influx/Grafana/Wireguard, a couple of Octoprint, Home Assistant - with a relay HAT for triggering dampers, Showmewebcam, and a handful of other things). Once I switched to good power supplies and good SDHC cards, my problems went away. My most heavily loaded machine is the PiHole machine which also has influx running and writing to the SDHC card - it’s probably a ticking time bomb, but it’ll celebrate it’s fourth birthday on the same card in two months.