for automated home, the raspberry pi will be plugged to an electrical outlet, but it won’t be shut down at all because that would shut off the automation as well, right? so can raspberry pi stay on for years?

Yep.. mine has been on for years

[image] snowmanHAB: so can raspberry pi stay on for years? Yes. But you will need to help it. In general, reduce the amount of writing that is performed on the SD card, don’t load up your RAM, and get a good quality power supply. If it is critical that your home automation is on 100% of the…

[image] snowmanHAB: so can raspberry pi stay on for years? Only if you do not patch security vulnerabilities the OS kernel & libraries. They usually require a reboot.

If the micro SD card is full, won’t it just overwrite the logs?

It’s more about the SD card failing due to wear.

My pi3b+ has been in use since sept 2018 with the same sd card. it gets rebooted often due to various things. The pi was a few years old before t was used for openhab. it was also running pihole for about the first 6 months or so. now i have an old pi1 running pihole and logitech media server which …

I installed raspbian on my raspberry pi, will it reboot by itself? or do I have to tell it to?

I had a First gen Pi running Homeseer from 2014 to a few months ago when I switched to OpenHab. I replaced it with a new Pi4 4gb. I would recommend taking image backups of your SD card every few months (on top of a normal backup strategy) I tape the backup sd card to the lid of my pi, in event…

[image] dotelpenguin: The SD card is the weak link, the pi itself will probably run for decades. Assuming a UPS to maintain power.

it’s not SD card the weakest link, OS is. eg. OS which tears down SD card. I’m running all my RPi’s on DietPI + USB root + SD boot for more than 5years now. Haven’t lost single SD card yet. If you are serious about running long, go DietPI

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How long can raspberry pi stay turned on?

Peter_Aschinger (Peter Aschinger) September 15, 2020, 6:55pm 14

My Rpib3+ is now up over 400 Days.
To reduce the use of the SD Card I turn off Logging and show only errors and warnings in the Log.