Ubuntu Core 24, an OS for IoT devices, launches with a new factory install system, GPU support for AI applications, support for Raspberry Pi 5, and more. https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-core-24-released/
“The Raspberry Pi AI Kit bundles an M.2-format Hailo 8L AI accelerator with the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ to provide an accessible, cost-effective, and power-efficient way to integrate high-performance AI with the Raspberry Pi 5."
£65.7 incl. VAT (coming soon)
Could it accelerate systems like #Ollama ? as I am interested in having a Pi 5 running as a “Sidecar” to offer AI services to #MoodleBox (#Moodle on the Pi)
I love my #raspberrypi army (1xPi1, 1xPi2, 2xPi3, 1xPi4, all running different things), but on a drunken whim I ended up sniping a bare bone Intel nuc5i5ryh for $20 and threw in ram/HDD i had sitting around and that thing is a beast
threw #proxmox on it and have basically consolidated the functions of all those #Pi boxes into one VM with processing and memory to spare
@stooovie yeah, I got a pi4 2 years ago or so for OSMC to use as a media player on the main TV and it did a good enough job for a while, but then woot had fire stick 4ks going for like 12 bucks last year so I got one solely to throw Kodi on and it just destroyed the Pi4's performance for that usage.
The only thing I had to do was learn how to program ESP32 stuff so I could hook an IR receiver to one, then hook it into the Fire Stick via USB Y-cable, and have it translate our remote's button presses to keyboard inputs that would then navigate the FireOS/Kodi
why? because we had an IR receiver in the Pi4 so Mrs Smiths could use it easily with the same remote we use for the TV and if I'm changing shit up around here in the background the rule is I have to make convenience not change for her as much as possible.
I made good progress on the #AI collaboration project with @Jorvon_Moss over the weekend. The #Nvidia Orin Nano boots up the servers and WiFi hotspot automatically. You just need to run Hopper Chat on the #RaspberryPi. No internet required! #LLM#ChatGPT
I have two choices to run Home Assistant on my future #Pi5. With HAOS and as a Docker container. My idea was initially HAOS, but the Pi5 will be equipped with an SSD, have 8GB and may be able to take on other tasks. That's why a OS Lite 64 bit might be more flexible. Are there any major advantages to HAOS (apart from being efficient with resources)?
@holgerschurig
I have some RasPi running here, under continuous load or on/off. Actually, without any major issues. The advantage is that they are easy to replace. The current HA project has an SSD in it, the SD card is not used. 1000 Ethernet is also quite enough.
For a real mini server or NAS, a NUC would definitely be better, but it's a smaller project.
But I'm just switching back to HAOS, addons are not that complicated, I've seen. 🤔😅
@beandev running it as a container makes using addons very difficult.
HAOS is a very good solution and allows you to install many other apps as addons, which then just run as containers. So you can still use the free capacity.
The only other way I would recommend is Proxmox, then you can run whatever VMs you want in parallel to HAOS and assign it however much resources HA and the addons need.
Installing HAOS on Proxmox is very easy: https://helper-scripts.com/scripts?id=Home+Assistant+OS
Deep joy. Greedy RealVNC is taking away the ability to use more than three copies of it at home, free. I shall, of course, switch to TightVNC. I expect they thought aged hobbyists had loads of money they could grab...
@Walrus it was five on your team via VNC cloud. Those were "access anywhere" hosts. I kept hitting the limit in the past, juggling machines in and out of my team, so I know it's a thing
If you're only using VNC locally, maybe you don't need to pay?
Ok, ich habe mich entschieden. Home Assistant kommt auf einen Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) mit 256GB M.2 SSD. Argon Expansion Board und Gehäuse (diesmal nicht selbst gedruckt).
Ich möchte doch gerne mehr auf die dedizierte Lösung setzen. Das Synology NAS ist aus dem Support raus und ich möchte es etwas mehr aus dem Blickfeld des wilden Internets nehmen.
One of the most fundamental yet little-known features of FreeBSD is its ability to be used in read-only mode very easily. By installing the system on a UFS file system, you just need to modify the fstab file, change "rw" to "ro," and reboot. On the next boot, the system will automatically create mount points in RAM for the main directories (/tmp, log, etc.), and it will run perfectly.
This was the main reason why, many years ago, I chose FreeBSD for almost all my embedded systems. Even today, on my Raspberry Pies, I keep the SD cards in read-only mode and use external storage in read-write mode. This ensures that, in case of an unexpected poweroff, the system will come back up, and there will be no wear on the memory card.
sigh I really need to come up with a reliable and inexpensive way to power cycle some equipment remotely.
My #raspberryPi is up and running but the two #SDR software defined radios aren't responding even after rebooting the computer. The computer was involuntarily power cycled twice yesterday when the power went out and when the backup generator transferred the house back to the grid after grid power was restored.
Or maybe the SDRs need to be reseated in their USB ports? 🤔
I had looked into various ways of remotely power cycling the last time I had issues and lots of folks had good ideas but I never identified exactly what I should use.
At least this Raspberry Pi doesn't cook SD cards when it gets involuntarily power cycled.