I'm not familiar with OSMC, but my only concern would be with transcoding video using up resources, but I'm guessing it doesn't as the rPI4 wouldn't be very powerful for doing that anyway?

Doesn't really hurt to try and see how you get on. HA can be pretty light if you're not running a lot of automations and scripts.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trascoding video on the Pi is pretty much a no-go 😆

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Haha thought so, but I haven't used a Pi in ages!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lucky you! But one thing that Pi's are is quiet, something you don't get with anything much more powerful.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True! I think I only ever used the Pi 2 or 3? Still too underpowered for what I wanted it for back then.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought a Pi 1 as soon as they were announced, then it spent nearly a decade in a cupboard (other than some short-lived projects) before I finally found a good use for it. It's currently running Pi-hole for my home network.

The Pi4 is a lot, lot more powerful. It can run a dozen self hosted services and do just fine, so long as those services are not media-serving. I have found photo or media servers are a bit much for the Pi 4, and I've recently moved things across to an old laptop and started looking at doing media related stuff.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

That’s a good use. I think back then I wanted it for media and maybe torrenting? I’m stretching my memory here a little, but possibly it had shared bandwidth between the USB bus and Ethernet?? Which made it unsuitable. Ended up selling it later on.