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Looking for advice running homebridge on a Raspberry Pi (self.homekit)

submitted 3 months ago by veeesix to c/[email protected]

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I’ve been curious about homebridge for quite some time and have been considering picking up a Raspberry Pi to run it. I’m interested to know about others experiences with it, and what sort of difficulties I might expect to troubleshoot in the future.

Is an RPi4 enough? Is an RPi5 overkill?

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[–] veeesix 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reply. I read it over a couple of times, and I think I get it, but a lot of it is going over my head without doing this hands on myself.

I’ll save your comment and report back once I’m able to work on this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No worries, know that the best way to learn in my opinion is from the OSI model. It breaks networking into 7 layers so that its easier to understand how stuff works and where it is. If you pursue it, learn starting at layer 1 (the physical layer), and then upwards from there.