Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab

Re:Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab by buran77 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:22AM (#34170951)

If you need to use the GPIOs, have size or power consumption restrictions then the Pi makes total sense. But for general purpose computing like a run of the mill home server, a low power x86 can replace a handful of Pis more efficiently.

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Re:Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab by aaaa4444 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:26AM (#34170968)

A $3 esp32 can do a lot for a microcontroller

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Re:Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab by Jnr on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:43AM (#34171047)

And you can probably do away with a 1$ ESP8266 for your GPIO needs.

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Re:Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab by buran77 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:34AM (#34171312)

The idea was that a Pi makes sense sometimes, and other times it doesn't. I know people using a Pi for one GPIO pin. This can be done just fine with an Arduino or an ESP8266.

I for one run a Pi with PiHole, Wireguard, Unifi controller, NVR, MQTT, etc. and a few more GPIO trinkets like Zwave. No ESP could practically handle all that, an x86 would be overkill in terms of size, noise, temperature, and power consumption.

On the other hand I use ESPs for things like "smartening up" my door intercom where even a Pi Zero would be overkill.

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Re:Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab by aaaa4444 on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:04PM (#34190646)

> No ESP could practically handle all that

You probably would be surprised what they can handle... See these examples:

https://github.com/ciniml/WireGuard-ESP32-Arduino

https://github.com/martin-ger/esp32_nat_router

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