Hello everyone, I am completely new to OpenHAB but would love to give it a try. I am currently running to RPi 4s with 8 GB each. I purchased them last summer with 8 GB as I was using them for Media and VPN Servers. I saw that even for the newest OpenHABian version the 32bit version is recommended…

openHAB is recommended to be run on a dedicated system in order to minimize HW & SW dependencies. Most people don’t want to endanger stability of their home just to save a couple of bucks. If you do then feel free to go ahead, but then openHABian is not the right tool for you.

You can install openhabian on linux, read this page about half way down openHABian | openHAB look for this line " Other Linux Systems (add openHABian just like any other software)" Although as a working system i would dedicated a pi to openhab as mentioned above. Zram is installed as part of Openh…

@Adrian_Hills : From what I understand, ZRAM will not work on a 32bit OpenHABian OS. Meaning I would have to live with unnecessarily high SD card wear. Or am I mistaken? @mstormi : Why exactly the need for a dedicated server? Does OpenHAB consume so many system resources and will cause issue when …

Zram works with 32 bit on pi3, not sure about pi4 8gb as I don’t have one. Openhab will run fine with other things, I run a test setup on pi4 4gb with the full install of pios . It also runs home assistant and some other stuff. But I would run a real system on its own device.

[image] openHABian hassle-free openHAB Setup Why exactly the need for a dedicated server? It’s not a need. Read properly: [image] mstormi: openHAB is recommended to be run on a dedicated system in order to minimize HW & SW dependencies. There is no single “that’s why” but there have be…

Hmmm. But dependencies should be installed automatically if the installation process is correct, should they not? OpenHABian, I would assume, is built on an existing distro. So in your github you manually added the required dependencies. If these same dependencies are installed during the installa…

I love these discussions, they’re useless. I did not write package dependencies, did I ? It’s dependencies in general. Peripherals, electrical, physical even, drivers, firmware, kernel parameters, yes also package dependencies, libraries, networking, npm and py modules, yadda yadda etc et al, you …

Well, I thought this was the right place to ask questions. I accept opinions and I accept experience. But I prefer real information and proper discussion. So if OpenHAB is prone to problems because of dependencies, then that to me sounds like an issue that should be handled in the OpenHAB package. …

It just is suggested to run openHAB on a dedicated hardware since usually one wants a reliable smart home system. Nothing more. What about if you install openHAB on a raspi that is already fully loaded with pi-hole, vpn, Kodi… Would you like that openHAB rules get delayed since the raspi doesn’t ha…

Hi, there is some merit to some of the points. Slaggish behavior should not occur since OpenHAB should not be resource hungry. So turning a light on or off etc. should still be easily possible even under max VPN load etc. After all, most single commands are “basic”. Port issues could and might oc…

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