Honami Pi 5

”Honami”, Mochizuki Honami (望月もちづき穂波ほなみ) from Project SEKAI

Moving to On-Premise

Having server on-premise is fun. With Raspberry Pi 5 powered by ARM64, I don’t need to worry much about power consumption and its powerful enough to powered all of my docker applications.

My Setup

• Raspberry Pi 5 8GB RAM
• SSD 250GB (USB Boot)

Cloudflare Tunnel

No need to worry about not having public IP address, Cloudflare Tunnel can be used and it is much simpler than configuring nginx.

Repositories

• leomotors/honami-backup - Backup files to Blob Storage
• (Private Repo) - Used in GitOps
• leomotors/honami-gitops - My custom GitOps

Home Project

• leomotors/home-env - Moving to On-Premise is a huge advantage for this project as ESP32 no longer need to send request to other country for metrics and all data is within home’s local network

Raspberry Pi 5 Guide

Useful stuff you need to know if you are planning to buy Raspberry Pi 5

• Don’t install Raspbian OS, it’s cursed
• Also don’t install Ubuntu Desktop, install Ubuntu Server
• Buy Official PSU, it is mandatory for USB Boot. Regular PD charger won’t work as most PD charger only support up to 3A at 5V but Pi 5 needs 5.1V 5A
• WLAN Country Config is buggy in Ubuntu Server, avoid connecting to 5GHz network, for best network performance, use LAN cable, it is fast, low latency and more reliable
• You need to change netplan renderer to NetworkManager, See: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/change-netplan-renderer-from-networkd-to-networkmanager. Otherwise it might not be able to connect to ethernet even you plugged in the LAN cable.
• Buy Micro HDMI to HDMI cable, you might will need it

Common Mistakes

• Be aware of what you plugged in to USB port, your Pi 5 maybe trying to boot from your keyboard 💀