Re: [mh] Misterhouse on Raspberry Pi?

I changed some code to save/log every hour instead of every minute. Besides
that as long as you've got a 16+G card you'll never burn it out. I'll try
and find the diff and send it when I can.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:48 PM Brian M <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Gianni,
>
> MH runs fine on an RPi.  Nothing special you'd need to do to install it
> above what you would do on Ubuntu.
>
> There are guides on reducing traffic to the SD card, regarding logging,
> temp space, swap, etc.  I've never had an SD card wear out, but that may be
> because I never use them for long. I use other approaches for my RPi's
> storage:
> 1) On some, I run from a USB attached hard drive. I think the RPis are
> already set to look to USB storage if they can't find an SD card, so the
> process is to install your base system on the SD card, partition and format
> the USB hard drive, copy the SD card partitions to the hard drive, shutdown
> and remove the SD card, and boot up. Hopefully it comes up, and if not,
> just put the SD card back in and figure out what went wrong. It's pretty
> easy.
> 2) On others, I use network booting from some other system on my network
> that has hard drives. That's a more involved process, but a good project if
> you have the time.
>
> In general, but particularly in the option #2 above, I highly recommend
> installing zram to improve swap space utilization. The only exception being
> that there's currently a bug in zram that only appears on RPi 4s that have
> 8G of ram. So in that situation, hold off until they get the bug fixed.
>
>                -Brian M
>
> On 1/21/21 11:54 AM, Gianni Veloce via misterhouse-users wrote:
>
> hi guys
> as my old Ubuntu laptop running MH is almost broken i am looking to move
> to Raspberry Pi.
> is there any detailed guide how to setup MH on Rpi?
> and are any hints to avoid the abuse of the SD card with writes from the
> OS and MH?
> Would installation on a USB drive help in this?
> TIA
> GV
>
>
>
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