Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
by slothtrop on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:03AM
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I'm aiming to use a supervised installation to free up the pi for other tasks, but concerned about performance. Will be booting from SATA to help to this end, and to avoid degradation from writing to microSD often (this may be the case when I start recording security footage)
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You will probably not have a great experience running cctv from a pi. You may want something a bit beefier unless your cams are low res, mostly due to transcode/copying costs.
In terms of disk, you want multiple disks as either raid/zfs/btrfs/lvm. It will probably be better to do this on a separate machine and mount it via nfs.
For your boot volume, you can also use a usb thumb drive to help avoid sd card fatigue.
I haven't had any issues just using the stock image on an SD card - it seems to be fast enough. YMMV especially if you plan to run other things on the Pi, though in this case I'd recommend going for a mini-PC instead and just installing a standard Linux distribution on it.
I see. Really it was just going to be something like pihole which is supposedly light. Maybe better not to use the supervised if this is focused on running HA?
In the future I'll consider the mini-PC, thanks. This will have to do for now.