retiring the pigeon homelab
retiring the pigeon homelab
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Trading the Pi(geon) for power
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I went: Pi 2 -> Pi 4 -> Odroid H3 -> Intel N100 box (current). All in all from about 4W idle on the pi to about 10W idle on the N100 box. So not a big power jump all in all, but my needs did get bigger since the Pi.
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Love the evolution! How are you measuring the power consumption of your devices? I’d be interested in profiling my build as well.
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I use a device similar to this. Pretty useful and handy.
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Them probably uses a special plugin device in the outlet.
I have this bash script you can use and have a general overview but I'm not totally sure if I fully understand it and if it's the whole system's wattage or only the CPU 🤷♂️
shell
#! bash time=5 sum_1=$(cat /sys/class/powercap/*/energy_uj | awk 'BEGIN { sum = 0; } { sum += $1; } END { print sum; }' "$@"); echo "before" $sum_1 sleep $time; sum_2=$(cat /sys/class/powercap/*/energy_uj | awk 'BEGIN { sum = 0; } { sum += $1; } END { print sum; }' "$@"); echo "after" $sum_2 sum_1f=$(printf "%.0f" $sum_1) sum_2f=$(printf "%.0f" $sum_2) final_sum=$(echo "(($sum_2f - $sum_1f) / 1000000) / $time" | bc -l) #echo $final_sum | bc -l | xargs printf "%.2f\n" formated=$(echo $final_sum | bc -l | xargs printf "%.2f\n") echo $formated "w"
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Nice write up. I'm in a very similar place at the moment, considering upgrades to my pi4.
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Thanks! What kinds of things do you intend to do with your lab? I felt that the Pi was suitable for most everything except media pipelines.
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Zimaboard.
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I went the other way; I had a Dell r430 and downsized to two hp elitedesk g4 mini. Together, they use less than half of the power of the 1u server.
But I am never satisfied, I'm sure I'll want to iterate again next year.