Hi Guys. Currently, my Raspberry Pi 4 is only running Home Assistant OS, which works quite well. In the last few weeks, I have grown more and more interested in paperless ngx and Nextcloud. Do you think my pi would be able to handle home automation and some light document management simultaneously? If so, should I install a fresh version of Raspbian or let HA-OS handle the Docker containers?

Thanks for your answers, and have a wonderful day :)

  • AtemuEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    While paperless processing is indeed quite intensive, it’s not like this is a latency-sensitive task. If it takes 5m to OCR a scan, so be it. That doesn’t make it unusably slow.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      What I meant is that overloading the CPU on a Raspberry running pi-hole will make the whole network misbehave and timeout, until DNS requests are able to be serviced again. But since they’re not doing that it should be fine :)

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        It’s there any way around this? I don’t want my smart home applications to run sluggish. They need to have priority.

          • AtemuEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Scheduling priority on Linux is borderline broken. Nice doesn’t even do anything noticeable on modern systems.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          I would say not in a way that makes sense, there may be hacky workarounds like setting nice priorities or messing around with scheduling, but there’s no way around hardware limitations. The Pi’s CPU, RAM, and IO bandwidth are what they are, and you need overhead to guarantee “snappiness”