What hardware are you using for Domoticz

[ropske]

Hi,

i'm curious about on what device you people are running Domoticz?
I've bought a raspberry pi3b+ and wanted it to use on my external ssd, but my ssd crashed.
So i installed a 64gb usb stick on it and im running it from there now (but its too slowly, probably because due the usb stick)

what should i do, buy a new external ssd to connect to my raspberry pi?
Or would you prefer to let Domoticz run on another device?

Got lots of zwave devices and my wife is allmost killing me its not working fine now lol

[AllesVanZelf]

I run raspbian, domoticz and pi-hole on a raspberry pi 3B+. Raspbian is running from a 16Gb usb stick (usb2.0) and I have mounted a external disk (usb). On this disk I have /tmp, /var and /home folder, which are mounted to the root of raspberry.

Fstab part:

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/dev/sdb1       /mnt/sdb1    ext4    defaults,auto    0    2
/mnt/sdb1/var /var none bind 0 0
/mnt/sdb1/home /home none bind 0 0
/mnt/sdb1/tmp /tmp none bind 0 0

This is running well for a while now.

[ropske]

so youre booting from usb-stick? and running domoticz from external hdd (usb)

[ben53252642]

An energy efficient Core i3 Intel Nuc is what I usually suggest for most people.

Benefits being:

1) Included power supply provides stable power (many people are running Raspberry Pi's off Phone chargers of varying quality).

2) Intel Nuc runs on SSD (or HD if you really want) by default, I suggest getting an M.2 SSD for the NUC.

3) Core i3 Intel Nuc with 4gb of ram and an SSD should be able to run even the largest of homes with Domoticz with resources to spare.

4) You can easily choose the BTRFS file system during Debian or Ubuntu OS installation (read about it on Wikipedia).

5) The cost is still relatively low.

[emme]

I'm using a Pi3B+ with an external 120Gb SSD running:
- Domoticz (zWave + RF433)
- NodeRed (for KNX, Alexa, Presence, Multimedia, Power consumption)
- InfluxDB
- Grafana
- deConz
powered by a
...the only problem I'm running out of tcp ports
I'm waiting to see the firmware upgrade for PI4 to boot from SSD with no SD to replace it.

Intel NUC was something I was looking for, but mi PI stands into a din rail... does NUC can fit a din rail?... I don't think....

[AllesVanZelf]

so youre booting from usb-stick? and running domoticz from external hdd (usb)

No, I boot from usb stick, run from usb stick, but have write extensive folders moved to harddisk.

[OedzesG]

Goodmorning..

I was using Domoticz on a Rpi3b+ for a view years, but had soms trouble with stability... so at this moment i run Domoticz on my Synology DS118 and so far no stability problems at all!!

It runst Zigate (20 bulbs Philips Hue) / Zwave (6 sensors) / RFXCom(5 dimmer/scwitches) / Sonos-node-httpi-api (on Pm2 server) and a lot of Dzvents scripts...(Toon for example) CPU is never more then 3%!

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[ropske]

awesome setup you have


i orderded yesterday evening an ssd harddisk, i will get it today.
So hopefully everything will run faster now, bad thing is the reinstall over everything

i was checking for an intel nuc, but i find the price a bit too high.

i also have a nas, a Zyxell 540, but there is not much documentation about it to install a raspberry pi on it, else this would be a solution for me also

[OedzesG]

door ropske »dinsdag 01 oktober 2019 9:20

geweldige setup je hebt

Thnx! Ropske..

ik heb ook een nas, een Zyxell 540, maar er is niet veel documentatie over om een ​​frambozen-pi erop te installeren, anders zou dit ook een oplossing voor mij zijn

Thats a bit the broblem i have with Synology... Domoticz installation was easy thanks to Jadahl how wrote the SDK for Synology.
But ollmoast all the plugins you can find and the how-to for setting-up are made for Rpi..

[Thorgal789]

I m on pi 3+ with still the SD card since more than 1 year, for the moment I realy want to know how many time it can survive (some users use sd card for more than 3/4 years without problem) and an another SD card is already ready for when the first one will die.

All is incredibly stable (1 crash in 1 year, freeze, but perhaps my fault, this installation is still in test) and realy few CPU use like others.

Only domoticz on the PI + some app to use with domoticz (like deconz, ...)

[N1co]

Can anyone comment on what model NUC the have Domoticz running?

Is there no problem with the Z-wave stick not running on USB3 ports?

I am planning to buy a NUC mainly for domoticz.

[OedzesG]

@ N1co,

you alredy bought a NUC?

I moved Domoticz from Synology to: Intel NUC7i5BNK, i5-7260U, just becouse i hade problems with running DzVents scripts when i was downloading movies on my Synology. (while downloading CPU is more or less 98%)

I use the Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 LTS sofware, verry stable and no problems at all at this moment!

curious about your findings!

[Sjonnie2017]

Running Domoticz and PiHole and Dashticz on a RPi 3B+ with a Samsung (EVO? - can't check ) SD card without any crashes whatsoever for more than 1½ years. It is powered by a high quality 3A adapter and my ConBee II simply loves that. The RPi has an aluminum casing that acts like a heat sink to keep temperatures under 38 degrees Celsius. I have no need for NUC's or other high(er) powered devices because of the simple functions it has to perform.

Been thinking about upgrading to a RPI4 but I feel no need. Somebody once told me

If it ain't broken don't fix it

Greetz,

Sjonnie

[gordonb3]

If it ain't broken don't fix it

True, but what do you have in place to actually be able to fix it in the unexpected case that it does break?

[Sjonnie2017]

True, but what do you have in place to actually be able to fix it in the unexpected case that it does break?

A Pi Zero That should hold 'til the fix arrives (which will be a RPi 4/5/6/7 or whatever )

[clinkadink]

After being on Pi's for many years, I switched to a NAS, as its use had grown quite a bit (Domoticz, Plex, CCTV, several websites, etc.).

I am now on a Dell PowerEdge T620 server, 2 Xeon processors, 128GB ram running Ubuntu 18.04. Hasn't crashed once

[EdwinK]

Running on its own Pi (3 I think). Really stable, unless I decide to toy with it. When it breaks down, it will be replaced by another pi as they are affordable.

[gordonb3]

i wouldn't really worry about the Pi breaking. It's the SD card that you run from and where you store your data that you should worry about.

[sammyke007]

Running very stable on my Synology DS414 for more than 2 years. I have an RFlink attached to my NAS. It's a little harder to install things on my Synology than installing it on a normal Pi, but most of the times there are guides available for Synology installation.

Most of the time I use WinSCP to connect to my NAS and install plugins in the plugin folder.

[grubstake]

I am sure a raspberry pi 3 or 4 will run just fine. I also am using a NUC. I used a pi 2 a few years ago, and it worked fine but was quite slow and I wanted something compact without external storage, so decided to buy a low-end NUC (NUC6CAYH Intel Celeron J3455). I bought the 'kit' which comes with no memory or storage, and added a 100gB SSD and 4GB of RAM, all together about $200 US. Certainly more expensive than a Pi. I installed Ubuntu 16 server, later changed to Ubuntu 18 desktop, and I appreciate how fast and simple to run some GUI packages to run backup and other software. I'm also running InfluxDB, Grafana, Homebridge, Mosquitto, etc. Nothing you can't do with a Pi, just fast and for me less effort. Normally runs headless.

Tim