HI mates, I'm considering future projects, there are lot of boards around with different I/O abilities, those should be chosen according to the needs, but about basic features a board should have to run decently NR, what doyou recomend? These are my considerations: As prices with new stuff like C…

Your questions are pretty much impossible to answer objectively, as they all depend on the actual use case :slight_smile:

I uderstand there is a variety of cases, but I think it's possible to share considerations about a platform, for example the Orange Pi zero: is the A7 not that slow to install NR modules and deploy? (these are the most frequent actions), is the board reliable running 27/7? Are 512MB recomended? is …

It's not really clear if you have a Node-red system yet or not, nor how complex your flows will be. Does the entire system have to run off batteries? I suggest you buy whatever small system you can get hold of just now. I personally would aim for 1GB or more memory. Try it and see how it performs. …

I used to have a PI before as well, but it got too slow when using serveral Grafana dashboards and databases I'm now running an old laptop with Ubuntu and docker. 4GB ram, Small 250GB SSD ==> survives any power outage :wink: Ubuntu and Docker with Portainer NR docker Influxdb docker Grafana dock…

"Cheapest (but effective) platform to run NR" A free for life cloud server from Oracle?? [image] Access Cloud Services for Free Oracle Cloud Free Tier provides enterprises with Always Free Cloud Services that can be used for an unlimited time. 4 core, 24GB R…

Yes, I've run one for the past 2 years without any issues. When the were first released they were pretty low spec, but they've since upgraded them, and I've just updated mine to the current spec, which is very fast & well equipped.

It is pretty complex to set up and you really don't get help from Oracle if you have issues. Several of us have had issues and I think someone couldn't even get it working. It is also Internet based so probably not ideal for a home automation setup since your Internet connection is another point of…

[image] TotallyInformation: It is pretty complex to set up Oracle have simplified it quite a lot now, and it's much easier to set up than it was 2 years ago. There are a few gotcha's though, opening up ports through the firewall for example, but it's easy when you know how😅

I've just gone through the registration sequence and was then asked for a credit card in order to complete the process. Have Oracle debited anything from your card whilst you have been using the facility?

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dynamicdave 3 April 2023 07:33 18

Hi Paul,
I assume you have one of their FREE accounts?
Sounds like a really good offer, I'll have to look into it in more detail.

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