Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I’ve been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

  • @saucylogginsEnglish
    36•2 years ago

    Sorry I have to laugh at this. If you have to write a script for it even if the script is easy there’s no way I can consider it “not hard”. Not hard is just being able buy it like anything else.

    I get what you’re saying though.

    • NotoriousEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      I didn’t realize it would be so easy when I wrote the script. Knowing what I know now I’d just check adafruit every couple minutes starting a bit before 8:30am PST.

    • PerhyteEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Hard for a “layperson”, maybe. But IMHO for someone interested in self-hosting this probably should not be a hard problem to solve, or at least a decent “warmup exercise” to see if you’d like it.

      I say this because you don’t even need to write the script yourself, there are plenty of preexisting applications that can be configured to notify you of updates to an RSS feed.

      I’m sure I could whip that up in changedetection.io or Node-RED pretty quickly, for example.

      I don’t use a dedicated RSS feed reader app, but I’d also be somewhat surprised if there isn’t one that supports some form of push notifications.