Asus tinker board

[NeverDie]

Well, based on my J1800 measurements at idle and taking that as a percentage of the TDP, I'd estimate the idle power consumption of the J3160 is around 3 to 4 watts.

Of course, Asrock will spec a power supply that will handle whatever they think the worst case scenario could possibly be.

@gohan He never really said why he wanted the low power. Maybe he just doesn't want it adding to the heat of the room that it's in.

[gohan]

@tbowmo said in Asus tinker board:

But still consumes power

From this sentence I thought his concern is the actual energy consumption of something running 24x7 all year long

[tbowmo]

@gohan

Yes, right, haven't calculated with ROI at all..

@NeverDie

I am aiming for as low power as possible, in order to save some pennies on the electrical bill

1kWh ~ 2 dkr (0.27€). a system consuming 20W 24/7 uses around 175kWh each year.. resulting in 350dkr (47€) on the electrical bill.

[NeverDie]

@tbowmo
Wow, what country are you in? Your electricity costs are triple the rates in Texas.

[gohan]

@NeverDie DKR is Danish Krone, so my educated guess is Denmark :D
Denmark is indeed expensive ( like the 120 or 180% tax on cars, I don't recall well)

[zboblamont]

@gohan Damn, you beat me to it, you're obviously not Texan, you spotted the obvious ;)
@tbowmo All good on low energy use, but don't dwell on ROI too much, it rarely pans out as projectedunless talking HUGE investments IME... Alternative supplies are growing and becoming more efficient, low energy demand gives the opportunity to reduce %age dependance on the grid... All good...

[JoeBona]

Tinkerboard primarily running Zoneminder server and Vino vnc server, (no monitor attached) 4 - 5 watts on my Kill A Watt meter

[tbowmo]

@gohan yep its denmark :) the place of high taxes, and free Healthcare and education to all :)
the just passed a new law that lowered the taxes on cars so they became cheaper.. A Skoda Octavia station wagon is around 40.000$ in denmark now, I have to pay 6300$ less in taxes. I was looking at the Skoda last week because we where talking about getting a new car.

[NeverDie]

@JoeBona said in Asus tinker board:

Tinkerboard primarily running Zoneminder server and Vino vnc server, (no monitor attached) 4 - 5 watts on my Kill A Watt meter

What distro are you running, and have you noticed any gotcha's?

ASUS does generally make good motherboards, so maybe they did their homework on this one too and gave it the needed support to avoid software issues.

[JoeBona]

Running Armbian desktop image, followed Ubuntu easy way to install ZM, really don't recall any gotcha's.

Runs without problem, never had to do a ZM restart because of ZM stopping unlike the TinkerOS

[ahmedadelhosni]

What about PINE64 ? Did anyone try it ?

Actually I ordered it from kickstarter when it was launched in April 2016 ( I guess ) but I didn't have the enough time to run it.