I'd skip the 5th generation NUC with 4GB that you mentioned. That's ancient by now.
I have 4th generation i5 (mid-2014) and 8th generation i3 (early-2019) NUCs and they are both fine boxes. The i3 runs all my docker containers and is available for vagrant/VirtualBox VMs when I need that, and is actually faster than the older i5. Excellent little boxes that 'far' exceed my compute needs. I would agree however that one of those little Beelink n100 boxes for a little more money is what I'd do today if I needed a small x86_64 system. But..... One 4 GB raspberry pi4 with a good micro-SD card is 'easily' fast enough to run two instances of weewx with a variety of skins and extensions. Mine's been working fine for multiple years. The pi4 to me is the weewx sweet spot if you need a very low power system at a low cost without worrying about needing a fan. I would also highly recommend running any weewx instances natively as pip installs rather than using VMs. No need to dockerize. No need to build and support VMs. Just run raspios 'lite' and do a couple pip installations. Super easy and reliable. Works perfectly on a pi4 without any fan. On Friday, December 6, 2024 at 8:15:50 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > I have not used that particular device. > I do run two WeeWX instances on a similar machine using Proxmox. Zero > issues. > Unless you need VirtualBox, take a look at Proxmox. > > On Friday, December 6, 2024 at 8:48:41 AM UTC-5 Auchtermuchty Weather > wrote: > >> I'm thinking of getting a refurbished one on Ebay (5th generation) to >> replace the mid-tower PC I'm currently using, which has an AMD A8-5600K. >> >> The NUC has 4GB RAM, the PC 8GB. Enough RAM? I could get one with an Intel >> Core i3 7th Gen. and 8GB RAM for not a vast amount of ££ more. >> >> My plan is to use Debian 12 and VirtualBox plus a couple of VMs each >> running WeeWx - my weather station has a GW1000 so is a network device, not >> a USB one. >> >> Has anyone used one of these? >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/56dc70a4-9a3f-4bd5-ab46-e2ccc682e845n%40googlegroups.com.
