I've been running weewx on a RPi 3B+ for just over 5 years, but after a couple of other pi's died for various reasons (SD card being one of them), I've moved it to a debian install on a VM in a Windows 10 Pro machine (runs my automation server). Hardware is a Lenovo ThinkCentre M700 Tiny which I find perfect for running a couple of small linux VM's on it. Low power, tiny, quiet, and versatile, and Lenovo hardware has been good to me over the years. Machines are cheap to find on ebay/amazon, probably less than a new Pi by the time you add all the parts.
On Friday, February 23, 2024 at 9:46:42 AM UTC-8 vince wrote: > If I was starting clean 'today', I would probably just throw $125 at it > and get one of those little beelink boxes amazon sells and toss linux on it. > > But to answer - currently on a 4GB pi4 to sd card for 2+ years with no > issues. > > Stability issues on a pi are almost always bad power supply these days. > I've never had a micro-sd fail on a pi3, 3+, 4, or pi5. Never. I did > burn a 'lot' of big sd cards on the old modelB over the years but again > that was related to either (a) cheapo cards or (b) cheapo power adaptors > not on surge suppressors. My one remaining modelB is still happily > shooting my timelapse snaps for over a decade now. > > I do make one change to the pi setups to protect the sd card. I mount > some filesystems as tmpfs so the sd can't be hammered by log writes by > appending this to /etc/stab > > #---- put logs and tmp dirs in ramdisk too --- > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs > defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 > tmpfs /var/log tmpfs > defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 > tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs > defaults,nosuid,mode=0755,nodev,noatime 0 0 > #--------------------------------------------- > > Yes - if I reboot I lose the system logs. But I basically never reboot. > > I might add that I do install rsyslog and the matching logrotate.d and > rsyslog.d files from util/ to my v5 setup, so weewx logs to under > /var/log/weewx in that tmpfs partition, so I just run debug=1 here because > it's not going to touch the actual sd card. Super stable. > > -- 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/e01b98c9-b636-45e2-ae7d-11fbf9ebff38n%40googlegroups.com.
