Raspberry pi for multiple purposes

[stefs]

I want to get this things:

1. Ad block
2. Network tracker
3. Camera viewer
4. NAS

 

Can i make all of this in one pi 4 2gb? 

Thanks

[pythonmegapixel]

Theoretically so, but it will be slow and unstable.

[BrinkGG]

9 minutes ago, stefs said:

I want to get this things:

1. Ad block
2. Network tracker
3. Camera viewer
4. NAS

 

Can i make all of this in one pi 4 2gb? 

Thanks

Adblocker and NAS: yes. Easily.

Camera viewer and Network tracker: no... well it depends. I wouldn't trust a single rPi to run all of these services at once, but if the usage is small enough, I see no reason not to.

Do you have any idea what you want to run specifically for each workload?

(piHole for adblock, motionEYE for camera, etc)

[mahyar]

i suggest 4gb but with a bit overclock on cpu its ok

[Kon-Tiki]

I agree with @BrinkGG. It should be no major problem, of course under the assumption that you're not going to serve a whole company network off it

Generally the Pi 4's CPU shouldn't let you down for most tasks, obviously depending on the workload. If you're planning on doing a lot of media encoding/ decoding for your Cameras (multiple cameras running simultaneously) while having a lot of traffic from the network tracker you might run into performance bottlenecks, though.

 

That said, if this is what I think it is (a home network project ) then I'd see no reason why it shouldn't work. Take @mahyar's advice and go with the 4 GB version and you should be off to the races good to go.

As far as stability is concerned: It should be no problem, at least I find my Pi 4 to run as a server very reliably.

[mahyar]

2 minutes ago, Kon-Tiki said:

I agree with @BrinkGG. It should be no major problem, of course under the assumption that you're not going to serve a whole company network off it

Generally the Pi 4's CPU shouldn't let you down for most tasks, obviously depending on the workload. If you're planning on doing a lot of media encoding/ decoding for your Cameras (multiple cameras running simultaneously) while having a lot of traffic from the network tracker you might run into performance bottlenecks, though.

 

That said, if this is what I think it is (a home network project ) then I'd see no reason why it shouldn't work. Take @mahyar's advice and go with the 4 GB version and you should be off to the races.

As far as stability is concerned: It should be no problem, at least I find my Pi 4 to run as a server very reliably.

i said 4gb because he want to ue it for camera monitoring and video decoding and that needs vram and rpi shares ram between cpu and gpu and at least a gigabyte of ram for rest of task and some for os and maybe docker if wants to keeps things organized 

[Kon-Tiki]

1 minute ago, mahyar said:

i said 4gb because he want to ue it for camera monitoring and video decoding and that needs vram and rpi shares ram between cpu and gpu and at least a gigabyte of ram for rest of task and some for os and maybe docker if wants to keeps things organized

Yes, and I agree :

 

8 minutes ago, Kon-Tiki said:

Take @mahyar's advice and go with the 4 GB version

 

[stefs]

Thanks everyone for the answer, i hope i will get much more   .

I already have 2gb model so i want to get most of him. I have one reolink camera i want to get 3.5 inch monitor to watch live stream.

Its for my home purposes. Network tracker is not necessary but i will be very happy if: cam viewer, ad block, and nas (or something similar just to share my one usb drive 128gb) can work good in same time. Also, can i make this to automatically turn on at 6am and turn of at 23 or 00 because i know i usually sleep and i that time and dont need this all to work. 24h

I dont have any idea how to start what all i need to do. I hope you will help me.

Thanks

[Kon-Tiki]

For what you described 2GB seems fine indeed. I haven't worked with video that much unfortunately so that isn't something I can help you with. A google search will, however, guide you to a lot of DIY guides on this topic.

As far as ad blocking is concerned I've made good experiences with Pihole a while ago. It's easy to install and maintain and does the job really well. For a NAS you could go for OpenMediaVault. It has a powerful web-based administration interface and makes configuring different shares relatively easy (once you've gotten the hang of it). There are also good tutorials out there about how to set it up.

Time controlled boot has to be implemented via external hardware as far as I know. But again, Google (or any other search engine of your liking ;)) is your friend in this regard.

 

All the best with your project

PS.: Don't forget to take care of a backup of you NAS regularly (can be configured in OpenMediaVault using a second drive)