I just setup a RPi4 8Gb using Berry Boot to install the Raspberry OS on a 128Gb SSD. According to Sysbench, the CPU was almost 3x faster than my other RPi4 4Gb running off an SD card.
Once I have determined that it is running reliably, I am moving my Node Red flows to new machine. Any suggestions or warnings on doing the transition? Is there anything that might bite me in the a$$?
RPI 4 2GB with 128GB SSD via docker with lots of other containers specific to home automation (and Apache reverse proxy to get to everything). I’ll post my configs if folks are interested.
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
5d0f111f2ab1 camect-connector "/usr/bin/entry.sh p…" 13 days ago Up 13 days camect-connector
3ba698567165 nodered-buster "/usr/bin/entry.sh n…" 13 days ago Up 13 days nodered-buster
57b75bcbdd2c docker-apache "docker-apache-entry…" 3 weeks ago Up 22 hours 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp docker-apache
37224e261e9b hubconnect-proxy "docker-entrypoint.s…" 3 weeks ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:22000-22001->22000-22001/tcp, 0.0.0.0:22010->22010/tcp hubconnect-proxy
e9e353dc98e6 raincloudy-flask "python3 /code/rainc…" 3 weeks ago Up 24 hours 0.0.0.0:5059->5059/tcp raincloudy-flask
ac789c5f93de ecovacs-api "/usr/bin/entry.sh p…" 3 weeks ago Up 2 weeks 0.0.0.0:5050->5050/tcp ecovacs-api
8ad0ff0fb52d smartthings-nodeproxy "docker-entrypoint.s…" 3 weeks ago Up 3 days 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp smartthings-nodeproxy
d606ac82bb6a oznu/homebridge "/init" 4 weeks ago Up 2 weeks homebridge
addcc78dbea1 portainer/portainer "/portainer --no-auth" 4 weeks ago Up 2 weeks 0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp portainerRunning on an RPI 4 with 4GB mem and 32GB SD Card + 32GB backup usb using RPI Clone.
Have also run NR in a Proxmox LXC with Ubuntu server.
One day in the near future - oDroid N2+ with 4 GB mem.. 32gb emmc maybe usb/sdcard backup.
RPi 3b+
Works fine.
QNAP NAS / Container Station
Docker on unraid
I am running Node-RED on Windows 10 on an Intel i5 CPU, 16GB Memory, 24TB “home server”. Same system hosts Channels DVR, Plex Media Server, InfluxDB Data Historian, Grafana, and HomeBridge.
Production - RPI 4, sandbox Win10 laptop
I'm running it in a docker container on ubuntu server on a dual xeon machine with 128g of ram, 1t of SSD, and 50tb of HDD. runs like a charm.
I should hope so that's a beast of a machine!
I'm running it as a home assistant add-on. And home assistant is running on an Intel NUC
FYI, you may want to hold off on updating node-red.
What reason do you guys update node red for?
Short answer: updates to node-red (particularly to built-in nodes).
For example, there were big (useful to me) changes to the inject node between 1.0.x and 1.1.x. 1.1.x also brought the capacity to group nodes, which hasn't been useful to me.
1.2.1 has brought some improvements to importing flows, especially as pertains to configuration nodes.
Ooo, I love that idea. How are you doing the Sandboxing?
Do you basically have both Node-Red instances connected to HE?
I'm running Node-Red on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 2 GB RAM
Other HE related items I have running on it;
Yes two MakerAPI instances, one for RPI other for Win10. Don't see any noticeable performance impact. Also have MakerAPI for HomeBridge
2020 i5 8gb mac mini.
Mac mini M1 - Docker on a UPS
The Mac mini is running all other house systems - Music Library, Plex, TV tuners/DVR etc etc
Mac mini M1 using 18w
Now adding Node Red.
2011 i5 24Gb Unraid server with a ton of other services and such.
I have experimented with putting it on a raspberry pi either as with ubuntu, or under VMWare ESXi on a VM.
Currently my prod instance of it is on the Unraid server. It is already a always on system that wold be running regardless so it might as well house Node-Red
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