I’m looking for a cheap Raspberry Pi with LAN port to run pihole. preferably 3B+ or 4 1 or 2gb. my budget is up to 2.5k. no need any case.
This might work better, with dietpi as the os:
I’ve run pihole on slower processors, with dietpi.
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Interesting, the dell wyse even looks compact like the raspberry pi. Will look into this. Thanks 
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bought the Dell Wyse 3040 as above. for 2.5k. so no requirement now.
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Hi DigitalDude, did you buy from the same website, would you recommend buying from the website. Also do you think if it can run “Home Assistant” Server with out issues.
yes, from the same website - Saudewala. yes would recommend buying from it.
i’m yet to test mine (received it just a couple days ago). but i’m just going to run pihole on it. it is pretty light weight. It could technically run Home assistant OS if it is just a basic setup with few devices. But for any practical purposes and better functionality you might want something with more RAM like Dell Wyse 5070 with 8GB or something like that.
@@rsaeon the cmos cell in the Dell Wyse 3040 is dead. any idea where to get them? btw i’m following the leads from this website
They’re pretty common, but be sure to check the polarity of the wires on the connector, the connector is polarized so it inserts only one way.
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@DrFreeman How was your testing with Dell wyse 3040? Were you able to run something on it? I was thinking of using this as a KVM by adding a cheap video capture card but not sure if this will work.
Anyhow love to know your thoughts on this, I got this one for ₹1,800.
I do this all the time with a USB video capture card with my laptop - I find it cumbersome hooking up a monitor, along with a wireless KBM. How to go around the KBM - I have no idea, would maybe need a RPi PICO or W to act as a USB peripheral ie emulating a KBM.
From where did you purchased for ₹1,800 ?
I got it from Nehru Place. They had the Wyse Trifecta lying around. I got them at
wyse 3040 @ ₹1800 (2GB RAM / 8 GB eMMC) (without adapter) just any 5V adapter works.
wyse D105 (5000 series) @ ₹1900 (4GB RAM / 16 GB SSD) (adapter 19V +₹250)
wyse 7010 @ ₹2100 (4GB RAM / 16 GB SSD) (adapter 19V +₹250) this one has a SATA port 
They only had 1 each lying around so I just took them. I can ask if they can arrange more if you need. I gave them the pretext that I will be buying more of these. 
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im sure price can be made better, i got a wyse 3040 for Rs.1200 like more than 6m months ago in Mumbai( need to check the memory though )
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damn that’s a good price. What are you using it for?
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I started using it as a raspberry Pi alternative bht diet pi or other debian distros are not allowing enough storage, will be adding additional usb storage and set this up again. Honestly it’s collecting dust right now 
. Have a bunch of rpi, like rpi 2, 3b, 4 and zero, zerow. Will be putting them to use soon. Have currently only one running with 4-5 dockers one of them is pi hole.
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Is raspberry pi zero W 2 + usb ethernet dongle is the cheapest option?
A ultra low power linux machine with ethernet under 2k.
It depends on the use case, with Rpi 0W2, you still need a case, cables etc which would run you more than a Wyse 3040. But the pi 0w2 does gives you more flexibility in some cases where you can add on to it. It comes with 512MB RAM compared to 2GB on 3040.
A wyse 3040 has more RAM, more USB ports, inbuilt Gigabit ethernet port and dual display port video outputs.
Again, it mostly depends on the use case.
Yeah use case matters.
For me in IoT I think this is the winner in terms of performance per watt. Ethernet is necessary for reliability.
Pi zero W 2 headless with usb ethernet will probably consume 1 watt at max.
Performance is similar to 3b+, only limiting factor is the RAM. But still enough for automation.
I will use it with POE splitter. So can be deployable anywhere without worrying about power.