I’ve been curious about homebridge for quite some time and have been considering picking up a Raspberry Pi to run it. I’m interested to know about others experiences with it, and what sort of difficulties I might expect to troubleshoot in the future.

Is an RPi4 enough? Is an RPi5 overkill?

  • moseschrute@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I’m running a RB4 with 4GB of RAM. I have HomeRidge running including one video stream from a Ring doorbell. I’m also running a Plex media server, though I do my best to ensure everything can direct stream without encoding, and I don’t use Plex that often.

    Basically my point is in running way more than anyone would recommend on one PI, and it still works. If you aren’t doing anything video - like bridging in a Ring doorbell - I think a PI3 would be fine.

    • veee@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Thanks for the tips. It’s good to know that I don’t need a whole lot to run things in general. I would’ve loved to run Plex, but my parents require transcoding!