[kwlug-disc] Small low power server for HomeAssistant

[L.D. Paniak]

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
> <mailto: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-Fanless-motherboard-Q1900G4-M/263105808367
>     <https://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-New-4-LAN-J1900-Mini-ITX-Fanless-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
>     <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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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/
>                 <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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