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[–] 30 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

A RPi is going to be smaller, quieter, and 10x more energy efficient though...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    There are probably a dozen things you can do to save energy on orders of magnitude higher than using a pi.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Like: using the pi to manage your HVAC more efficiently.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why use a pi instead of a microcontroller?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    At the HVAC control level it would be a Pico - for the development / maintenance time efficiency: I know how the tools work, I know the community support is there, the hardware is easy to find and available relatively reliably, although ESPHome on the ESP micro-controllers is pretty good too.

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