think this seller may have ripped me off with the psu the pi 4 needs 5.1V stable and the ones they sent are labeled 5v and look nothing like the official ones they sold them as
The easiest and safest way is to install the RPi openHABian image.
We advise not to install the OS yourself as that will quite almost and quite for sure result in little differences on everyone’s boxes, probably depending on the user’s UNIX knowledge level.
But these little differences can be enough to make a standard solution (that works for an image based box) no longer work for everyone.
So please, start with the image and don’t change anything unless you’re really knowledgeable enough in Linux and aware of all of that change’s consequences.
If your RPi4 isn’t the latest revision, your laptop’s power supply might not be able to supply it due to the USB-C incompatibility. It should be fine if you’re using an official RPi power supply, but as you’ve noted, maybe that’s not what you were sold.
I would recommend to store your data on an attached usb-harddrive instead… I got tired of sd-cards corrupting after a while…
I dont beleve in having sd-cards as a storage for a server enviroment…poor quality of cards and too many read/writes…
So I moved the data to a harddrive (you’ll still have to have an sd-card inserted to get the system started…but otherwise it isn’t used…). For me has worked like a charm for several years now!