Recommendations for RaspberryPI 4B case?

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Sunny@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨selfhosting@slrpnk.net⁩

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8297248

Recommendations for RaspberryPI 4B case?

Hiya, so I have a spear RaspberryPI 4b, and want to selfhosted HomeassistantOS on it, heard there were some advantages of running the full OS and not just the docker container. However I currently don’t have a casing for it.

So: Is there anything I should know before buying one? Does the rpi get very hot running HomeassistantOS? E.g. Do I need one of these cases with a fan built into it? Or is it OK without?

Appreciate any tips or suggestions! however I will not order anything from Amazon or Ali Express or any of those type of websites. Feel free to recommend via them though as I might find the same case elsewhere, perhaps.

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aodhsishaj@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do you have a 3D printer?

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ex_06@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
i use this and i don’t feel like having any trouble, but on my pi i only have music rss and rss bridges

flirc.tv/…/flirc-raspberry-pi-4-case-silver

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- RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I am using the Cooler master one, e.g. article here tomshardware.com/…/cooler-master-pi-case-40-revie…
  
  That one however makes the GPIO pretty unusable, so yours seems better.
  
  I am using Jellyfin and Immich on mine mostly, it is rare that the PI gets hotter than 50-55°C. Don’t know if that’s good since I have no point of comparison. It took a long time at 100% load which got the temperature up to 70°C, but that was just once when I made the mistake giving Photoprism my whole photo library at once.
  
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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Personally running an Argon Neo on the pi 4, zero complaints. Flirc is better looking by half (imho), but the Neo out performs it thermally (with the cover off).

I’m running it as a pihole/jellyfin&servarr passively cooled with zero problems.

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