Hi Guys. Currently, my Raspberry Pi 4 is only running Home Assistant OS, which works quite well. In the last few weeks, I have grown more and more interested in paperless ngx and Nextcloud. Do you think my pi would be able to handle home automation and some light document management simultaneously? If so, should I install a fresh version of Raspbian or let HA-OS handle the Docker containers?

Thanks for your answers, and have a wonderful day :)

  • drugo@lemmy.drugo.meEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    It’s probably going to be ok to scope them out and experiment a bit, but I doubt you’ll get enough performance and stability to run it as production. Paperless’ OCR is quite heavy on the CPU - iirc you can disable it but then you lose half of what makes it useful, and Nextcloud also does some processing to files that are uploaded to it. Since you are not running pi-hole or other latency-sensitive services it will probably be fine, it will just get sluggish while it processes uploads.

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      While paperless processing is indeed quite intensive, it’s not like this is a latency-sensitive task. If it takes 5m to OCR a scan, so be it. That doesn’t make it unusably slow.

      • drugo@lemmy.drugo.meEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        What I meant is that overloading the CPU on a Raspberry running pi-hole will make the whole network misbehave and timeout, until DNS requests are able to be serviced again. But since they’re not doing that it should be fine :)

        • Lennard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          It’s there any way around this? I don’t want my smart home applications to run sluggish. They need to have priority.

          • drugo@lemmy.drugo.meEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I would say not in a way that makes sense, there may be hacky workarounds like setting nice priorities or messing around with scheduling, but there’s no way around hardware limitations. The Pi’s CPU, RAM, and IO bandwidth are what they are, and you need overhead to guarantee “snappiness”

            • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              Scheduling priority on Linux is borderline broken. Nice doesn’t even do anything noticeable on modern systems.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    10 months ago

    Nextcloud will be slow. To be realistic is it always slow in all hardware.

    • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It will be slow on the Pi, but it’s pretty darned fast on my new DIY NAS with a Ryzen 5600x so it does scale with better hardware.

        • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Eh, every page has a bunch of Javascript errors and logs. That’s normal. So far it hasn’t impacted my usage at all and I’ve got 450GB gigabytes stored in a Nextcloud instance that’s lasted 4-years and migrated between 3 separate machines.

          • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            10 months ago

            That’s normal

            Ahaha. The current state of software development and what people accept as normal is just mind-boggling. And no, it’s not “normal” nor “ok”, it slows down things and the UI sometimes crashes with more data.

            • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              I take it you’ve never seen the amount of crap that gets put into journalctl then. I’ve never encountered a Nextcloud crash with the amount of data I have. It could have been a deployment issue on your end. My docker containers have been running fine.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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  • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Ive been running HA (in docker container) and NextCloud on rpi4 4gb and it was working fine, but after server upgrade (diy pc) nextcloud became much more snappy (wasnt my reason to upgrade). Not sure about paperless, but I had many more lightweight services along with HA and NC. Im also not heavy HA or NC user, just my 0.02

      • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I would, but you have to decide on your own. I dont know can you afford HA downtime, how much experience you have and how much time you want to burn. I found docker frustrating to learn but super rewarding. Keep in mind Im still new.

        Its best to backup and/or get spare SD card to learn how to setup everything. Be prepared for begginer mistakes, but once you get familiar a bit it will be much easier.

        If you can manage docker containers in HAOS just try it. I have 0 experience with HAOS so cant help much, but I saw Portainer is available as HA addon. You should be able to manage all docker containers with simple Portainer GUI.

        I had dietpi or raspbian OS with docker, docker-compose and Portainer installed. Then I started many containers (including HA) using Portainer. If you go this path you will lose HA addons. I believe most addons can be replaced with docker containers from hub.docker.com, but Im not sure about that. Ive just seen some HAOS vs Docker posts

        Gl

    • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Same here. My old Pi 4, was running HA, Nextcloud, Ghost blog, websites, Jellyfin and a couple of other small things. It did it fine, but when I upgraded to the Odroid H3 it all became so much faster and snappier.