Orange Pi 5

Hardware Server
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If anybody is looking for a SBC to run openHAB, I highly recommend the Orange Pi 5. A few of the features are:

  • Rockchip RK3588S (8-core 64-bit processor, quad-core A76 quad-core A55)
  • 4/8/16/32 Gb LPDDR4/4x RAM (32 Gb not available yet)
  • M.2 PCIe2.0 interface (supports NVMe SSD hard drives)

It doesn’t have Wi-Fi, but they announced the Orange Pi 5B that will support Wi-Fi, but does not have the M.2 interface.

Here are pictures of mine with 16Gb RAM, and a 256 Gb NVMe SSD hard drive running Armbian.

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@ranielsen

It would be nice if you could describe your experiences with this board.

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In my case I moved from a banana pi to the orange pi 5. 2 core → 8 core, 1 Gb RAM → 16 Gb RAM. It also supports booting directly to the NVMe SSD drive (no SD card).

Start times for openHAB (4.0.0.M1) went from about 4 minutes to about 30 seconds according to what is logged in openhab.log.

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Are you running any other services on this board, or is it purely dedicated to openHAB?

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Just openHAB on the banana pi and openHAB+frontail on the orange pi 5. Will probably run other services on it as well.

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Cheers! openHAB must be as happy as a hippo in an ocean-sized mud pool with all that resource just for itself!