armbian with pre-installed homeassistant raspberrypi 3B+

[guy cal]

Is it possible to run armbian with pre-installed homeassistant on a raspberrypi 3B+ ?

 

The reason of my question is, I have running homeassistant on a orangepi pc2 which work very well. On the raspberrypi 3B+ running unter raspbian, homeassistant is very slow. 

[Torte]

That might be due to little RAM.

I did a test install about a year ago on a raspi 3b+ with 1GB RAM, and it became extremely slow after a short while. htop showed, that the system was completely busy with swapfile access. Even a shutdown took some hours.

Homeassistant might claim, that 1GB can suffice, but IMO that's more a proof-of-concept than a workable solution. As soon as you add some integrations, the free memory becomes quickly too low.

[eselarm]

8 hours ago, guy cal said:

On the raspberrypi 3B+ running unter raspbian, homeassistant is very slow

raspbian is old 32-bit ARMv6, or maybe you use wrong naming. I see orangepi pc2 is also 1GB RAM and 4x Cortex-A53. So that is the same as RPi3B+. Armbian should be 64-bit on the orangepi pc2 and if that runs fine for you with HA, then it should also run fine the same way on RPi3B+. Armbian has no 32-bit support for raspberries, so maybe have a look if there is a ready-made image.

The root filesystem on the orangepi pc2 you have currently should run almost unmodified on a RPi3B+. The issue is that raspberries boot filesystem is proprietary, but if you know or get to know how it works, you could get it to run.