Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
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@cowboysdude Super cool community. Any advice on raspberry power? Should I cut electricity 12 hours a night with a smart plug? Or run it 24/7? Which is better for longer life?
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@cornusandu said in work in progress:
Should I cut electricity 12 hours a night with a smart plug? Or run it 24/7? Which is better for longer life?
In my opinion, I would leave it running. As long as you keep the temp of the Pi somewhere in the neighborhood of 40°C. Personally, I prefer that to 365 unnecessary boots a year.
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@cornusandu I leave mine running all the time… have had no issues after a year so far :)
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@cornusandu if you just turn off the electricity is not that good for the hardware in terms durability, but if you create a shut down routine e.g. 5min before, than it should be fine.
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@Mykle1 He is running at a stable 65 Celsius
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I mounted back the fan. Now is down to 38.5 Celsius
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@cornusandu said in work in progress:
I mounted back the fan. Now is down to 38.5 Celsius
I rest my case. :-)
Excellent!
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@cornusandu Pretty slick looking MagicMirror! What monitor did you use?
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@enettekoven It is a very old 19 inch 3d monitor, My wife decided that she want a curved monitor and this one was just sitting in the garage
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Very cool! How have you done the full length mirror? Is that film over glass?
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@cornusandu said in work in progress:
the raspberry will be running continuous until it will die i guess.
@cornusandu said in work in progress:
Any advice on raspberry power? Should I cut electricity 12 hours a night with a smart plug? Or run it 24/7? Which is better for longer life?
As everyone else said, leave it running, don’t cut the power without shutting the RasPi down safely first. Two advices I would give you:
- When everything is set up and running, and everytime you add a new feature/module, make an image of your sd card as backup!
- Think about a UPS, Uninterruptible Power Supply. There are some add ons that combine a batterie that provides power for a few minutes and a circuit that will detect the power outage and initiate a safe shutdown. And when the power goes back on, it will go back to normal.
I learned both the hard way, but I’m still not done finding/setting up a good UPS solution.
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@noelandrews it is polycarbonate two way mirror. A but expensive but it looks really good. Size 120 cm. 60 cm.
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@doubleT thank you. UPS, I will have to shop around for something small and strong enough
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