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Jellyfin / Paperless-ngx on Raspberry Pi 4? (sh.itjust.works)
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Does anyone run one of the above on a Pi 4 and can share their experience how good or bad they run?

If course, transcoding won't be any good and OCR probably cannot run in parallel, but aside from that - is it okay?

Currently running everything on a mini ITX with a i5-6600 which handles this easily for my small use cases, but also draws 20-30W idling most of the day... I'm eyeing a Pi 4b with 8gb RAM but don't want to spend the money and then realizing that it doesn't run smooth enough

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[-] mbp@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I tried paperless years ago on my 4B and it did not work well enough to be usable.

Jellyfin was fine.

I'd say getting an x86 think centre or equivalent will cut your idle in half and give you enough overhead to run paperless and jellyfin.

[-] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

it did not work well enough to be usable.

Was it the overall performance or the OCR specifically?

I have run paperless some time on a pi 3b without OCR (manually doing it on a PC or when scanning with Apps like MakeACopy) and it was okay-ish. Not a lot documents though.

And I thought it was mainly the 1GB RAM limiting (starting Paperless started swapping right away...)

[-] mbp@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I remember it also having some issues when browsing the scanned files but I did use OCR as that was a requirement for paperless being useful in my case.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

I run a 2019 Dell OptiPlex SFF desktop as my ESXi box - it idles under 20w with multiple Linux and Windows VM's (4 are standard, besides the ad-hoc ones for testing stuff).

Hard to beat the idle combined with performance when needed. Pi really doesn't compare.

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