Recommended hardware Platform as Pimatic-base

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Hi,
since over a Year im using Pimatic… and it was getting slow… very fast
Im using RPi B with Debian.

Since it uses only 1 core and SD-Card as booting device, it is very limited.

Today arrived a fresh RPi 2 B with 4 Cores… but still crappy flash bootmedia… i want to give it a try… but i don´t think that this device will boost up pimatic as far as it needs to…

so… what hardware do you recommend to boot pimatic from?

What about the BananaPI? Pine A64? Or one of those other Platforms that came out the last year…

Should have:

• SATA port for using SSD instead of SD-Cards
• USB 2 ports… maybe USB 3 Ports…
• Ethernet (wifi optional/via USB)
• GPIOs for different devices like 433mhz receiver, 1-wire bus, etc…
• fast as hell cpu-power
• low price
• low power consumption

any idea?
What do you recommend?

@demlak
as i formerly said in another threat i am using pi 2 with attached ssd over usb
i am ok with that setup.

I use an Pi B+ with an USB HDD as main partition. For me this is good. But an Pi 2 should boost the the system really. Or the Pine A64

I use a Raspberry Pi (1) B+ with a Nano as RF-filter. It’s fast enpugh for me, no complains. It takes a bit longer to start Pimatic but after that is fast. If you had to buy a Pi now a days, I would recommend buying the latest/fatstest Pi,. It’s just a few euro’s more but you get a lot more power.

well… for sure, pimatic runs on RPi in different scenarios… but that´s for sure not feeding the potential of pimatic…
so… whatabout searching for better hardware?

thats the reason for my thread… and also for the list of features…

i would love to find a peace of hardware that has low power cunsumption but enough speed/power for all the stuff pimatic is for…
for example a 1-wire network + 433mhz receiving etc… in ONE PEACE of hardware…

But what is slow on the Pi? I really don’t have any performance issues (only loading could be faster, but you don’t restart that often) with Pimatic, and I have a shitload of rules

i am curious about the pineA64 too. well that could be an interesting option.
lets see what the raspberry pi foundation will come up with next …

@koffienl for example a 1-wire mesh and receiving 433mhz signals…

buying extra hardware like arduino and 1-wire controller is a solution… yes… but having a better pimatic base would be more nice also better hardware offers more flexibility for future requests…

@demlak said:

@koffienl for example a 1-wire mesh and receiving 433mhz signals…

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean? Is processing of 433 Mhz slow on your system ?

yes it is… without arduino as a signal filter

Aha … yes you are right. Then it will slow down. But it’s just a investment of 5 dollars to bring down CPU usage to about 5% (on a pi 1, a pi2 is 1% CPU), no need to buy more expensive or faster hardware.

I uinderstand you want something bigger bolder and faster, but Pimatic is imply fast enough on a Pi. Only thing you need is a extra filter (Arduino or other AVR chip) for e few dollar.

that´s not only $5… it´s also more skills and effort to get things run…

but well… thread-idea was to find/discuss about better hardware solution… not only for me…

failed
it´s ok…

It’s not like the topic if failed, it’s just them perhaps you don;t need any faster hardware becasue there are easier and cheaper ways.
What do you find difficult on the Arduino? Perhaps someone can assist you ?

it´s a generel question… not for me only…

for me… i got arduinos in here… also esp8266 modules and so on… im fitt enough to get want i want to…

in future i will cancel all 433mhz and 1.wire things… and replace them with esp8266 modules and maybe your espimatic…

it´s more a question about future related hardware in generel for pimatic… for other users… for future users…
an all-in-one-platform would be nice… would make things easier… and easy things will spread pimatic all over the world

I’m trying to develop a PCB that you can ‘click’ on the Pi with a Arduino, RF send/receive together. @Icesory is working on a same concept though more advanced.
Perhaps that would be easier for beginners ?

for sure… that would be easier… but that´s nothing for beginners
i don´t think, that addon modules are able to solve the wishes of beginners:

cheap, easy and ALL in one…

and as it was mentioned: there will be more powerfull hardware in future… the need of an addon module, which for sure will not feed everyones whishes… won´t be there for long time…

For me I really need 433 , I do all my lights with KaKu, and as yet there is no working alternative (in a decent price range). If only we could have ESP inwall lightswitches with dim-function …

@koffienl said:

If only we could have ESP inwall lightswitches with dim-function …

shouldn´t be that difficult… but… wrong thread for it