retiring the pigeon homelab

Trading the Pi(geon) for power

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I went the other way; I had a Dell r430 and downsized to two hp elitedesk g4 mini. Together, they use less than half of the power of the 1u server.

    But I am never satisfied, I’m sure I’ll want to iterate again next year.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I went: Pi 2 -> Pi 4 -> Odroid H3 -> Intel N100 box (current). All in all from about 4W idle on the pi to about 10W idle on the N100 box. So not a big power jump all in all, but my needs did get bigger since the Pi.

    • Irdial@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Love the evolution! How are you measuring the power consumption of your devices? I’d be interested in profiling my build as well.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Them probably uses a special plugin device in the outlet.

        I have this bash script you can use and have a general overview but I’m not totally sure if I fully understand it and if it’s the whole system’s wattage or only the CPU 🤷‍♂️

        #! bash
time=5
sum_1=$(cat /sys/class/powercap/*/energy_uj | awk 'BEGIN { sum = 0; } { sum += $1; } END { print sum; }' "$@");
echo "before" $sum_1
sleep $time;
sum_2=$(cat /sys/class/powercap/*/energy_uj | awk 'BEGIN { sum = 0; } { sum += $1; } END { print sum; }' "$@");
echo "after" $sum_2

sum_1f=$(printf "%.0f" $sum_1)
sum_2f=$(printf "%.0f" $sum_2)

final_sum=$(echo "(($sum_2f - $sum_1f) / 1000000) / $time" | bc -l)
#echo $final_sum | bc -l | xargs printf "%.2f\n"

formated=$(echo $final_sum | bc -l | xargs printf "%.2f\n")
echo $formated "w"