I said it already in your last video the quality is outstanding and there are a lot of bigger creators which could take you as an example. The Zimaboard looks fantastic as a replacement for my Pi4. I want to step up my selfhosting game and this could be a perfect piece of tech helping me there.
Thanks, this was well done. I've been looking at standalone hardware for running Home Assistant and this looks like a possibility. Showing the complete installation process was great, thanks for that.
Zimaboard is an interesting alternative to all RPis used to host services. The presence of sata ports and a PCIE port and the fact that the system is on x86 architecture makes the ease of deployment better than at least the RPI 5, where, although we have pcie, but we would have to use expansion cards to plug anything into this pcie. I must admit that I like your productions very much. You surpass quite a few bigger channels than yours in quality and presentation. It's clear that you have a lot of knowledge, and all of your original IoT and automation projects are just very interesting and cool!
Awesome review man. Big fan of your projects. I spin tiny pc’s for home servers but the Zima has that cool factor and, as you said, passive cooling is nice. Doesn’t beat the pi5 in price but definitely in performance and build … they just need to make some magic on the price to attract more people.
@@PricelessToolkit If I want GPIO i will use ESP32 or ESP8266 with ESPHome connected to HomeAssistant :) I use a RPi4 for backup/test server with HomeAssistant
Definitely a good alternate to ARM based SBCs and Casa OS simplifies a lot of things related to deployment. While researching I liked how they have a demo available on the website. But I wonder if the power consumption of Zimaboard is comparable to something like HA Green.
Id love to enter the giveaway please, best of luck everyone! With this I’ll finally be able to move from my pi 4 with 2GB ram with only home assistant and finally be able to install some more stuff! Maybe this could be my journey into homelanb, very exciting! Great quality videos btw! Keep it up!
6w idle. if you will use just a couple of containers the Zimaboard is okay. I use 2x Lenovo m720q for the main and backup server because I have lots of virtualization, idle is 2x22w. if you search little bit more power than Zimaboard can offer, check the processor Intel N100
This is really cool, do you know if Proxmox offers access to the hardware for the machines running under it? like the Google Coral TPU? also, has anybody else configured the Plex server add-on inside Home Assistant with media from an USB storage device? I can't get that to work. thanks.
I said it already in your last video the quality is outstanding and there are a lot of bigger creators which could take you as an example.
The Zimaboard looks fantastic as a replacement for my Pi4. I want to step up my selfhosting game and this could be a perfect piece of tech helping me there.
Thank you very much for the kind words, and best of luck!
This is my new favourite channel. So straightforward and simple. Really like your informative videos 😌
Wow, thank you!
That compact form-factor and passive cooling appears to have the perfect WAF
Yes I like the design too
Thanks, this was well done. I've been looking at standalone hardware for running Home Assistant and this looks like a possibility. Showing the complete installation process was great, thanks for that.
Glad it was helpful!
Zimaboard is an interesting alternative to all RPis used to host services. The presence of sata ports and a PCIE port and the fact that the system is on x86 architecture makes the ease of deployment better than at least the RPI 5, where, although we have pcie, but we would have to use expansion cards to plug anything into this pcie.
I must admit that I like your productions very much. You surpass quite a few bigger channels than yours in quality and presentation. It's clear that you have a lot of knowledge, and all of your original IoT and automation projects are just very interesting and cool!
Thank you very much, I am using RPI when i need GPIOs
Awesome review man. Big fan of your projects. I spin tiny pc’s for home servers but the Zima has that cool factor and, as you said, passive cooling is nice. Doesn’t beat the pi5 in price but definitely in performance and build … they just need to make some magic on the price to attract more people.
Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!! I totally agree with you, and maybe instead of a normal PCIe slot mini PCIe, to install Coral TPUs directly
ZimaBoard looks like a nice alternative for RPi boards and CasaOS looks nice
it's not alternative to RPI, advantage of RPI is GPIOs
@@PricelessToolkit If I want GPIO i will use ESP32 or ESP8266 with ESPHome connected to HomeAssistant :)
I use a RPi4 for backup/test server with HomeAssistant
The 2 lan ports make it very nice to use as a firewall and such as well. Would love to get my hands on this hardware
best of luck!
Pretty cool little sbc, they're just getting more and more capable 👍
yes it is
I would love to have one of these! I travel a lot for work, and this would be VERY useful!
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Definitely a good alternate to ARM based SBCs and Casa OS simplifies a lot of things related to deployment. While researching I liked how they have a demo available on the website.
But I wonder if the power consumption of Zimaboard is comparable to something like HA Green.
HA Green will use less power but, X86 and SSD....
Always wanted to get one for my home.
Good Luck
Very well made video! This kind of work deserves more subs!
Glad you liked it!
This looks interesting. Now im considering replacing my raspberries for HA, plex and othres projects. THank you for pointing it out!
I'm glad you liked it
Thank you for review, its a great little server and i dont need PCIe but i will love to have restart and power buttons not just soldering pads
I can understand that but in the server use case, you don't need those buttons.
Looks like a really nice mini server and a great upgrade compared to my ODROID M1
Yes not bad for it size and power consumption.
Good detailed review!!! Makes me wanna save up for one!
Thank you!
Love passing cooling!
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Id love to enter the giveaway please, best of luck everyone! With this I’ll finally be able to move from my pi 4 with 2GB ram with only home assistant and finally be able to install some more stuff! Maybe this could be my journey into homelanb, very exciting! Great quality videos btw! Keep it up!
Thank you and best of luck!
@@PricelessToolkit thanks for the reply!
X86 sbc are always best for versatility
Great video 👍
Sure is, Thank you
This is a homelab gold standard :)
Every homelabs are different, So no gold standard :)
Great video, ZimaBoard looks interesting.
Thank you!
This looks much better then the pcie that raspi5 has
Yep Rasp need a PCIe HAT
Looks good! Dual SATA for raid-1 :)
Fingers crossed!
With the two network ports I imagine you can use it as a small NAS. Maybe I can get my hands on such a device to try it out ;)
for nas you need SATA ports and one LAN :) best of luck!
That is grea piece of hardware!
es, but the price is a little higher than I would like
@@PricelessToolkit indeed!
Funny, I'm just searching for such a Mini PC and researched on YT, would be great to have it as home (lab) server :)
Good luck!
I enjoy your videos, thank you.
Thank you.
I hope I win. Could use one of this for docker containers
Good luck!!
I'd wait for them to update to the Intel N100s.
The N100 CPU is good!, but I think you will have to wait a long time.
Nice! Great to get some ideas
Thanks
I think this is one of the best server possible found. Great video! Can I entry into the giveaway? I will try to create a several project
Entered!
What is the idle power consumption? And how does this compare to a miniPC in your opinion? Thanks!
6w idle. if you will use just a couple of containers the Zimaboard is okay. I use 2x Lenovo m720q for the main and backup server because I have lots of virtualization, idle is 2x22w. if you search little bit more power than Zimaboard can offer, check the processor Intel N100
Wonder how it'd handle opnsense to reduce some watts from current setup
It is capable of routing 1Gb/s easily
See ya RPi!
RPI has its own niche, I use it when I need GPIOs.
@@PricelessToolkit I agree
This is really cool, do you know if Proxmox offers access to the hardware for the machines running under it? like the Google Coral TPU? also, has anybody else configured the Plex server add-on inside Home Assistant with media from an USB storage device? I can't get that to work. thanks.
Yes you can pass Google Coral TPU to VM easaly, proxmox is the best!. sorry but i dont use PLEX.
Great video good work👍
Thanks 👍
Great video. Can we install Homeassistant in this board? Thank you very much
It's obvious that you haven't watched the video, but I'll answer, yes of course.
@@PricelessToolkit I'm sorry. After I watch the video till the end a
I found that homeassistant can be installed.
Nice! I hope tor win it!
Good luck!
Everytime I see the Zimaboard I'm irritated about the blocked port. It isn't even a port I'd use after installing proxmox, but it still irritates me.
Yes, it is annoying.
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Thanks!
Nice ;)
Thanks for the visit
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Hola desde Francia, bienvenido.
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thanks