RE: Raspberry Pi in HA?

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting stuff and quite exciting - anyone know how powerful this
little beast is at what it's limits are CPU wise?

Paul.

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve
Daniels
Sent: 01 March 2012 15:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi in HA?

I heard the ethernet and both ports are driven by a single built in USB
hub, so it might not have much throughput going for many tuners and network
too. It'd be a bit of a balancing act?

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Marcus Warrington <
marcus.warrington@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I believe it has a built in SDCard slot to host the OS or image so you
> shouldn't have to lose a USB's for the image.
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> For me I have a few ideas for intended uses ;
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> 1)    XBMC - media player for each TV
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> 2)    xAP controller / X10 bridge
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> 3)    Data logger for my solar panels.
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> 4)    SSL VPN access server / FTP server / House web server
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> 5)    PVR Server using USB Tuners
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> I have a  vision of a rack unit stuffed full of Raspberry blades :)
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> Marcus
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Simon Haslam
> Sent: 01 March 2012 14:35
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi in HA?
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> That sounds good! I've just looked - they are building the Model B
> first which I see has 2 USB as well as ethernet. I doubt I would
> consider a non-ethernet version since reliability would be important
> and you can't beat a piece of wire! However with 2 USB that would
> leave you a port for a disk/stick plus another one for another device,
> or hub to a keyboard/mouse/serial port adaptor for some other HA
stuff.
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> I don't know anything about Raspberry Pi yet but what would be really
> good would be to build a standard image to go on a USB stick with some
> nice HA stuff in it - owfs, mrtg/rrd or munin, lighttpd, possibly even
> an HA controller (e.g. MisterHouse but that seems to have lost all
momentum).
> This approach has worked quite nicely with the O2 Joggler - there's
> quite a thriving community around it and about 3 or 4 main competing
> images (depending on what you want to do).
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> Simon
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