“My first Pi, although I have some previous experience of homebrew.
Principally bought to run Homebridge as a headless server, so arguably overkill. Delivery was very swift and exactly as ordered. Had pre-imaged a card using Raspberry Pi Imager for Mac including WiFi setup, so up and running first time over ssh using the mac Terminal app. Only issue was that the Pi VNC server doesn't work with the default Mac VNC client. Solution was to run Tiger VNC Viewer and all good.
Very neat and smart in the Argon Neo 5 case and powered from an existing USB power supply connected to my UPS. Arguably overkill just to get a Ring doorbell to talk to Apple Homekit, but looking forward to exploring other apps and add-ons for the Pi. All impressively simple.”
“It's pretty good for the size and price of it. I'm using it with a PCIE 3 NVME and would say it's worth the additional cost. If you go this route then you can skip the SD card and just go for their NVME+HAT package, or use the SD card for additional storage or practicing on some of the alternative operating systems. You'll love it.”
“Think I'm probably preaching to the converted here, but here we go!
Purchased this as a desktop replacement for my wife's Windows PC after moving my own setup a while back.
Coupled with an NVMe drive, it really does do the job nicely. Admittedly, we are no longer power users so our requirements performance wise are quite modest. But it does the job perfectly for us.
Usual top notch service from the Pi Hut - great price and arrived quickly in super protective packaging!”
