[kwlug-disc] Small low power server for HomeAssistant

[Ron Singh]

Ohh, that is a beauty, Lori!
Fanless and very decently-priced.

Also, Khalid, it has 2 mem sockets to allow up to 8G using those mem
modules I have, that way you can use it as a torrent PC too, haha, lots of
RAM.
Definitely worth checking out and seeing if the hardware is covered with
Ubuntu 16.04.x.



Thanks,

Ron Singh


On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:37 PM, L.D. Paniak <ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com>
wrote:

> I have had good luck with fanless Zotac "NUC"-likes recently eg.
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=7_
> 1203_1157&item_id=112080
> Tough to beat the price with dual gigabit, wifi, BT, USB-C and HDMI.
>
>
> On 02/03/2018 12:19 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>
> Thanks.
>
> Those are nice. The one with the case has an onboard CPU (or so it seems),
> so needs RAM and disk. The other one does not see to include a CPU. It is
> always vague with these listings on eBay, isn't it?
>
> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A couple of solutions(from China, so ship time will be a while) for the
>> mobo(sans ssd/ram) and a kitted solution(again, without ssd/ram) based on
>> the Intel Celeron J1900 SOC --
>>
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-New-4-LAN-J1900-Mini-ITX-Fanle
>> ss-motherboard-Q1900G4-M/263105808367
>> &
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fanless-Mini-Computer-Barebone-2-
>> Gigabit-Nic-4-USB-VGA-HD-COM-Intel-J1900-Nettop/162546020408
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron Singh
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It should, but I am evaluating the alternatives before committing to an
>>> RPi 3.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:47 AM, CrankyOldBugger <
>>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> While I can't say that I understand the requirements, but would a $50
>>>> Raspberry Pi do the trick?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2 February 2018 at 11:43, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just had a thought and hammer the idea of a laptop a bit more:-)
>>>>> See, Reality Bytes in Elmira has some X220T tablets for less than 200
>>>>> bucks/i5/4G/320G hdd) and I think one of these mounted on a wall will
>>>>> afford a touchscreen interface to quickly look at stats and will not take
>>>>> up too much space, about 12" x 10" I would think
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.realitybytescomputers.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> As a reseller, they do the grade "B" X220T to my form for some $160,
>>>>> so I think the retail is around $190-$200.
>>>>>
>>>>> A headless solution, tucked away would be the best and very clean, but
>>>>> man, the $$$ is significant.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps some old Intel NUC based on an older i3 or i5 would be perfect
>>>>> too if you can find one cheap o Kijiji or Ebay.
>>>>> I haven't looked at NUCs in quite a while with mostly the Atom-based
>>>>> units being fanless, Mebbe the i3-32xx boards can be had fanless too.
>>>>>
>>>>> A few years back we did some DFI mini-ITX boards with i5-520M as
>>>>> packet sniffing appliances for a local client and those boards had 4 NICs,
>>>>> watchdog, wireless, but no GPIO. Seems like anything fanless and with GPIO
>>>>> becomes "industrial use" with an "industrial" price attached:-(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>
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