Axel Rafn
I've felt I need to step up my nerdiness here inside the bus and do something with all the #RaspberryPI computers I've accumulated for the bus. Finally setting up a project to use an RP4B+ 4G model as a central point of data collection from smaller devices in the bus, as well as to be a NAS of sorts, so we can have more backups of things we do on the computers. We will most likely post more on our website https://www.vanlife.is #vanlife #it #iceland #rp4 #rpzerow #rpzero #rp0
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Jan 24, 2023 at 5:21pmWeb
Show threadBörniJan 24, 2023

@axelrafn I also set up an rpi, but only an older version 😂 RPi 3B, but it ist enough 🙂👍 I used #dietpi wich makes IT easy to maintain the software in it, and it uses less recources.
Currently we use it for #homeassistant for Solar, battery and Security, #pihole and #nodered and some small docker Containers for Testing 🙂

This ist booting from an SSD, which we also use as Backup/File transfer device 🙂

But at night I turn it off now in winter time to save a little bit of battery 😁 (1% per night)

Show threadAxel RafnJan 24, 2023
@boerni I've heard of #dietpi but never taken a look at it before. Does it keep different software packages closed off in containers or are they all in one system but configured and managed by the OS/Package Manager?
I've been looking at #nixos today to see how that might work for closed off containers so that data isn't going all over the place.
Show threadBörniJan 24, 2023
@axelrafn it's the last one, they are all installed in the system. But dietpi hast it's own software manager, beside the normal package manager, where the software comes preconfigured to run on the dietpi without problems. It's nice and easy, but it also hast it downsides. For example the Home Assistant can only be installed in the basic version, the full configuration Mode (don't know the right Name 😁) is Not possible there. You have to Install it in a docker container.
I never heard of nixos 😉