Had good luck with Lenovo ThinkCentre M700 Tiny with 8GB ram. It runs the free version of VMware ESXi. Two weewx vm's, plex and home assistant run fine. USB pass through for the SDR dongle. I have a cold spare M700 Tiny and backup the vm's to a network share. Network share is Pine Quartz64 Model A with SATA card and two SSD's in software RAID
- Good SD card - Proper Power Supply - Try to limit writes - UPS Had to change a UPS battery, that is why the uptime is so low. root@raspberrypi2-0:~# uptime 05:39:48 up 256 days, 4:43, 1 user, load average: 0.44, 0.48, 0.49 root@raspberrypi3-1:~# uptime 13:42:09 up 256 days, 4:45, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 root@raspberrypi:~# uptime 13:42:56 up 343 days, 14:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 root@raspberrypi4-1:~# uptime 05:43:49 up 44 days, 13:49, 1 user, load average: 0.53, 0.38, 0.30 ## This one boots off of a USB SSD, for what ever reason locks up Andy On Friday, February 23, 2024 at 4:18:20 AM UTC-8 jterr...@gmail.com wrote: > I installed my Weewx in 2019 on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, fitted with an mSATA > extension card (such as this one : > https://geekworm.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-x850-v3-0-usb-3-0-msata-ssd-storage-expansion-board > > ) and a 120Gb mSATA SSD. > Zero issues, and still running today. > > Le vendredi 23 février 2024 à 07:25:49 UTC+1, michael.k...@gmx.at a > écrit : > >> I'm curious what hardware you are running WeeWX on, and your experience >> with it. So, this is not about the weather station and the sensors, but the >> device which is running the service. The reason I ask this here, is because >> the issues I experienced with my hardware might be related to weewx and >> writing it's logs, and we all know the first rule for posting a question >> here :D >> >> Since my first WeeWX installation in 2015, I've been using every >> generation of the RaspberryPi B, except for the 5th. But looking back it, >> has sometimes has been a royal PITA. It's not that I consider the Pi being >> bad at all, but I've been having issues with whatever storage I've been >> using. SD-Cards were a total disaster, USB flash drives were slightly >> better, USB attached SSDs, at least, lasted more than two years before >> being attached to the Pi killed them. The only type that didn't fail so >> far, was a NFS provided by a QNAP NAS, but this Kind of setup is a bit >> complex to maintain, and starting the NAS over, means quite a bit of >> downtime for the Pi also. >> >> The Pi never was intended to be a server running 24/7, considering this, >> it's success in being used as such, is beyond imagination. Anyway, my >> experience for the Pi being a storage killer, doesn't seem to be uncommon. >> It's original intention was satisfied: I learned a lot about how not to >> lose data with unreliable hardware. Since 2015, my database isn't missing >> more than one archive value a day in average and the longest gap is about >> two hours back in early 2016, using the standard interval of 5 minutes. >> >> What hardware are you using, what is your experience? >> Can you suggest hardware with low power consumption as a requirement? >> What about the newest generation, like Intel n100 based systems? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/696aa1da-4b56-42b0-a0c0-93ad572e016an%40googlegroups.com.
