Hardware setup (Banana Pro ?)

---

A silly question maybe, but I was wondering what to buy.

I want to start a simple setup (and build from there).
So I got some KaKu powerswitches, a KaKu doorbell and now for the automation.

In order to get it all working with Pimatic, I -think I - need a Raspberry and a 433Mhz superheterodyne sender/reciever kit.
But quite close to my home, someone is selling a Banana Pro. Can I use it as well? It looks nice; as fast as the Pi2, Wifi onboard, for around €40… Or should I buy the Raspberry Pi 2?

Once I have the transciever Kit (through e-bay, PiMatic.org or from China) is this setup sufficient to start?

I know that @sweetpi has a banana pi running.
but i don’t know about the differences between the banana pi models since i never had one.
i just read that bananian is a modified debian 7 version for banana pi / pro : https://www.bananian.org/

btw - if you’re from Germany you can buy the pro at Conrad.de at ebay for appr. 51 euro incl. shipping.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Allnet-Banana-Pi-Pro-1-GB-ohne-Betriebssystem-Banana-Pi-Pro-Board-/400837660561
or here for ahipping within Europe for 50 Euro :
http://www.ebay.de/itm/lemaker-Banana-Pro-Mini-PC-Board-Cortex-A7-1-GHz-1GB-RAM-WLAN-115346/381224708676

ah sorry - forgot about an important thing : you should also buy a arduino nano for pimatic-homeduino. you can install your receiver and sender to the b.pi as well, but we recommend to use an arduino nano with the homeduino sketch flashed on it for 433MHz receiving and sending.
since there has been some trouble with ftdi nanos, you should go for a ch340 chipset as precaution.

A banani pi should work fine.

I suggest you use an arduino with the 433mhz tranceivers. If your using the pilight filter it should work Also (wiringx). But i had receivijg problems with it. The arduino filter works best.

Right, that makes it quite clear. Thanks for the prompt and extensive replies!

The banana seems like a good start overall. I should get the Arduino for the transceiver modules. As they come quite cheap they can 't b miss-bought anyway

BTW: I could get my hands on a -barely- used Banana Pro for around €30 euro

@bord4kop said:

BTW: I could get my hands on a -barely- used Banana Pro for around €30 euro

then go for it