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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m running a RB4 with 4GB of RAM. I have HomeRidge running including one video stream from a Ring doorbell. I’m also running a Plex media server, though I do my best to ensure everything can direct stream without encoding, and I don’t use Plex that often.

Basically my point is in running way more than anyone would recommend on one PI, and it still works. If you aren’t doing anything video - like bridging in a Ring doorbell - I think a PI3 would be fine.

[–] veeesix 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the tips. It’s good to know that I don’t need a whole lot to run things in general. I would’ve loved to run Plex, but my parents require transcoding!