“I use 2 Raspberry Pi's, one, the 2GB variant as a smarthomeserver with openHAB. This controls with 3 wireless transceivers and wifi just under 50 smarthome devices.
The Raspi has enough power reserves and for a price of about 150€ the fun costs just as much as a Homematic CCU and is much more flexible and powerful.
The second, a 4GB variant I use with openmediavault as a cloud server for data, calendar, phone book incl. sync. of three Android phones. It also runs Plex Mediaserver for movie and music streaming. The Pi manages four 2.5" HDD's via USB, two each in a Raid1 mirror.
There are still performance reserves here as well.
I have been using the Raspi since the first version and have always been satisfied. Let's see what the Raspi 5 has to offer ;-)”
