Just missed the Pi Zero W restock today - checked the WH and was surprised to see stock!
Headers allow for some extra functionality, but wireless is the big selling point for most. Historically sells out in minutes, so get in quick.
Raspberry Pi Zero WH (Wireless with Soldered Headers) - $24.95 + Delivery (from $3) @ Core Electronics
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While technically the answer is "Yes" I prefer services my network depends on to be wired.
Non wireless version is available for $8.94, then just need a cheap micro USB to Ethernet adapter. Got a similar setup with a DAC running piCoreplayer without issue. Speed obviously limited by USB2.0, but doesn't really matter.
You don’t need one if you have a 24/7 on PC already. Just setup a virtualbox instance. Super easy and free.
17.95$ for the standard one with $3 delivery.
https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-zero-w-wireless…Was posted earlier - but shows out of stock when you add to cart.
Ahh yes that's silly. Didn't know it shows out of stock when added to cart.
Ordered one. Thanks OP. Been meaning to set up Pi Hole for a while now.
Or.. NextDNS, free for 300,000 DNS queries.
Interesting - never heard of them. Looks pretty cool and pricing seems fairly reasonable…
Does this works for Home Assistant.Need to decide Rasberry Pi 4 or this ? Never used Rasberry Pi before
While it would work on a zero, it wouldn't be an enjoyable experience with slow install and restart times, plus any significant number of entities would struggle. Pi3 is probably the minimum recommended hardware. You could also start with a virtual machine on your existing computer if you wanted to give it a try with no cost.
HA runs well on a Pi 4 but I'd recommend some passive cooling. Recently placed mine in a heatsink case and dropped CPU temp by maybe 20 degrees. Pi Zero really won't cut it for HA but does great as a PiVPN or PiHole machine.
I believe RPi Zero is a single core.
RPi 4 is more powerful.For Home Assistant I would go with Odroid N2.
If you want to support HA you can buy very nice bundle HA Blue (I think it is $10 extra over the same set of components but you re getting very nice fancy aluminium case).Pros: more CPU power, eMMC storage.
Cons: no warranty (actually very short warranty) if you buy directly from HardKernel.HA Blue was out of stock for a long time until last night.
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-home-assistant-blu…Thanks for the tip on hardKernal being back in stock. My Home Assistant system has outgrown my Pi3B and I've been keeping an eye out in the hope that the Blue would become available again.
NO. The Raspberry Pi Zero does NOT support Home Assistant.
It is not powerful enough, and support has been completely removed from the current version of HA (it was previously compatible).
Ask me how I know……
Yeah - the Home Assistant software team is incompetent when it comes to efficiency. It isn't doing anything very hard, but they see modern CPUs and wonder how many clock cycles they can burn. Each year HA has used more and more compute resource for identical functionality.
On HA defense, focusing on efficiency often means code which are harder to maintain and work with.
That's a big call to make. I don't think you can justify it. If you don't have (m)any addons and just running vanilla HA with limited integrations and sensors then I don't think you'll have an issue running it on lower spec hardware. Be realistic in your expectations sometimes…. If you can see a real problem then put your hand up to try to solve it instead of labelling groups of people incompetent.
This statement is from a user who's been using HA for 4+ years, and has seen it grow to what it is now, with a massive number of efficiency changes made and continue to be made in almost every new release
Latest noteworthy changes: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/#other-noteworthy-changes
Lovely post OP. Thanks!
These guys are awesome, have bought loads of stuff from them. Great Aussie store.
Silly question, but what do you guys use Raspberry Pi to do?
You can use it to run a media centre (e.g., OSMC https://osmc.tv/) or a DNS server like pi-hole https://pi-hole.net/
Not much experience with programming, Is it easy to set up for DNS server?
Apologies if it sounds a stupid question, the application of it to run a media centre will be useful when you are have stored media files saved on pi zero or drive connected to it or you can play youtube videos without adds?
Very easy to set up. The instructions are on the pi-hole website
You don't need an RPi to setup Pi-Hole. Works fine on a desktop or htpc that's on 24/7 too. Just follow this step by step: https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0107.html
OSMC on a Pi0 might struggle especially if you custom skins and certain adons. I can feel my Pi3 lacking at times for OSMC
It is basically a mini PC that can be powered by 5v power source.
It can do things like normal PC do. It can take videos and photos if you connect a camera to it. It can print if you connect a printer to it.
It can control all types of cars, drones, boats, robots and so on, if you find a way to connect them with Pi.
Using a program to process data and send command to the receiver. Than the things that you are controlling will do anything that you asked if they capable of.
Almost anything if you creative enough and willing to learn programming.It's a poor man's computer basically, a low powered computer which can do quite a bit of computing. It can do many of things a regular computer can do but with some or a lot of compromise.
Can make a cryptocurrency hardware wallet for a fraction of what they sell for: https://www.pitrezor.com
I rebuilt the controller board of my 1980's pinball machine with this model. It emulates all the functions and mounted to a custom PCB I had made, it directly plugs into the original connectors. Bloody thing work first go too!
I use them for monitoring metrics and graphing them with grafana. For example I monitor my solar, water usage, voltages on batteries, network traffic, data on the pi itself, temps, humidity etc, appliance power usage
Using Pi Zero W as printer server for my non-wireless laser printer.
What software are you using for this?
Thanks!
Any recommendation for the good cheap charger for this pi zero? Thanks
Cheap phone chargers. You probably already have one.
OOS :(
Whoa, that happened quickly. As usual!
If you are looking for low-cost dev boards, then pull up your sleeves and learn MicroPython with the RPi Pico for about the same price as a coffee.
Could you please fix your page with regards being notified when these come into stock? The functionality just doesn't work at all
…aaand it's gone.
Non wireless version says still available for $8.94, for those who don't need/want wifi.
https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-zero.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32970749345.html
^believe that is the same Ethernet adapter I used which plays nicely with Linux.On the other hand, had a spare Zero Wireless I used for octoprint since it was sitting there. Not officially supported, but works fine, that is until days later you'd go to connect and couldn't. Headless, so no idea why. Had added a hardware power button which always still worked, so not frozen or anything, just lost connectivity. So can't imagine using it for any headless server you rely on. Guess either way worth adding a power button so you can shut down/power on without removing power.
Cheers.
Power management used to cause the wifi to drop out. Might be that?I have a remote raspberry pi that I use to tunnel into a remote site and it is always up
Thanks for that. The project I have in mind doesn't need wifi so you saved me a few dollars extra.
This is sufficient for piHole yeah?