Raspberry Pi 5 w/ Home Assistant - Worth the Upgrade?

By request...I did test the N95 in the same build of ESPHome ESP32 -
Rpi 4 = 137 seconds, Rpi5 = 45 seconds, and N95 = 28 seconds

Boot time is 24 seconds on the N95 (probably would be faster but it has the delay to go into BIOS being an x86), vs the Rpi4 at 51 and Rpi5 at 39.

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00:00 RPI5 Board
02:27 Case and HAOS
05:30 Power Comparison
06:55 Speed Comparison
08:50 Add-on Install Faster?
11:13 Closing Thoughts and Boot Comparison

[calebjpryor]

You should have posted the n95 timings for compile and startups. Great video

[Razor_Burn]

I've been using an OrangePi 5 as my main Home Assistant host and its holding up great and 16GB is plenty of memory for all the connections. Its nice to see support available for the RPi 5 so quickly. In hindsight I should've just got a budget mini PC to future proof my setup but for my needs the low powered ARM chip with A76 cores does a decent job.
Happy New Year to you and the family!

[tigrezno]

something you guys forget is stability. Rpis have massivelly good linux support, everything works and is stable. With a chinese minipc you will have many problems when your HA start crashing due to random hardware

[bdubs]

Thank you so much for this video! I have been wanting to upgrade my HA Pi 3, for a while now. I ordered the mini PC you had the link to, for $129.00 and it showed up the next day. I literally had the new HA up and running within 2 hours I was impressed. Much faster now.

[JBoya]

Thanks for doing this video. It is great timing for me. My Pi 5s arrive in a couple of days.

[hummerfixes]

FYI successfully installed RC1 on pi5 with full backup from pi4 and it's now running LIVE. For the moment I stuck with the default IP add, so there's some effort involved going through stuff like frtizbox router, WIFI devices, MQTT which makes switching back equally tricky, the ZigBee stuff just worked (opposite to what I'd read)

Most important was setting up SSH web terminal and SAMBA, life savers, no doubt there will other issues with IP, eg InfluxDb & Grafana but nothing critical.

As for speed, things seem quicker, especially graphs, loading history, page refresh, Studio Code Server etc, will probably add systemmonitor for system feedback.

So thanks again for your video which was key 👍👍👍

[keithjackson]

Hey. Love your videos. Amongst the best as you're informative, casual, personal and no music. Just saying keep up the good work and happy new year.

[jochie]

I run home assistant on a bananapi m2 zero with only 500MB RAM, it runs perfectly fine with monitoring gas, water and electricity usage as well as regulating heating and turning on/off some lights.

[OldCurmudgeonDP]

Went from a Pi3b to a Dell 3060 form factor for HA & pihole via proxmox. Not looking back. Probably repurpose the Pi to my telescope or something.

[CarAudioInc]

agree 100% love when I see a digiblur vid drop <3

[otzlixr]

I would highly recommend people prop one end of the rpi (i use the top) up. The fan is not very effective if you keep the RPI flat.

[rolyantrauts]

The Orange pi 5 gives even better perf for near half the wattage and the GPU is on another level and has a NPU.
Hopefully this will be the last Broadcom/Upton Pi and the Pi6 will be a completely new generation by the excellent Pi Engineers.

[northyland]

One thing to consider is the PI has tons of support, so depending on your skill level pi might be better option for those just learning.

[tempacc]

@digitalblurDIY 2:50 It gets hotter because Pi uses an older cheaper process node, not just because they added performance. If they used a smaller more recent process node it would stay cooler.

[djashjones]

Every time I hear of a Raspberry Pi, I think of "Driving Miss Daisy"🤣🤣

[LarryKapp]

I want to try Home Assistant . After watching your video I just took your advice and ordered for $125 Beelink Mini S12 Mini PC, Newest Intel 12th N95(Up to 3.4GHz) 4C/4T, 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB SSD which is less than a Pi 5 starter kit .

[zyghom]

100% with you - nowadays, with such comparable prices of mini-PC and power consumption, there is little to none reason to build Smart Home on RPi. Especially if you will ever consider upgrades

[coedshowers]

Ive used them all and I would say buy a mini pc.... Do not keep trying to use home assistant on a pi4/5 esp if you are running any kind of sql database to log your system.. Its so much better. use ha-OS on them nativly...

[renaulth]

Bro, unrelated, but the bald look really suits you

[jyvben]

3:50 no need to leave top of case, there is space for air to circulate