Asus tinker board
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I recon that the TDP / SDP is given for the CPU only, then you have all the glue logic around it as well, which all adds up..
Next up is the pricing as an example: Asrock Beebox J3160 is 220$, without RAM etc. (btw. power supply for the asrock is given as 36W)
so, back to the tinkerboard, it can be bought for 90$ (under half the price), add a SD card and it's operational.. Power supply is below 10W (if I'm not totally mistaken).
Just wondering if it will give me as pain free running, as my current setup with an RPi2..
On the other hand,Just remembered that I do have an atom based machine as a leftover from when I ran mythtv.. Might be usefull for ZoneMinder. But still consumes power :(
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Yes, right, haven't calculated with ROI at all..
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.
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@tbowmo
Wow, what country are you in? Your electricity costs are triple the rates in Texas. -
@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)@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... -
@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. -
Tinkerboard primarily running Zoneminder server and Vino vnc server, (no monitor attached) 4 - 5 watts on my Kill A Watt meter
@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.
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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.
