raspberry-pi-pcie-devices VS docker-homebridge

Generally yes. M.2 wifi cards are just PCI-E (except for Intel CNVio). Jeff Geerling tried a bunch of different PCI-E cards with the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module which does expose the PCI-E interface: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/

We're also trying to preserve the utility of older cards by getting at least portions of the drivers working on alternate platforms (like arm64), so they can be repurposed for Plex/Jellyfin transcoding, retro gaming, GPU compute, etc.: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...

The current answer is maybe: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...

The PCIe implementation on the 5 is supposedly more complete/less broken than on the CM4, but so far the only person crazy/inspired enough to test hasn't gotten back to this card with their Pi 5 setup.

Just a note that if you're _serious_ about WiFi on the Raspberry Pi... you should use an external WiFi adapter—either PCIe or USB.

With the Compute Module 4, I've successfully tested a variety of adapters [1], from WiFi 6E to older mini PCIe and M.2 cards. There's even a board made for the purpose of multi-WiFi testing, the Seaberry [2].

The Raspberry Pi 5 works with all the PCIe WiFi chips I've tested (haven't had time to summarize testing on pipci database site yet, including a mt7921u-based WiFi 6E USB adapter (haven't written that up, but check out [3]).

[1] https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#network-cards-nics-and-wifi-...

[2] https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm/seaberry.html

[3] https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/issues/137#issuecomment...

https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com honestly I'd get a home server and run HA through docker, it's gotten me into home servers.

The simplest access you can get would be by using a CM board (as that has PCI Express available on its connectors) but driver issues galore exist. AMD have been more open the the "greenies" but the closest result I have seen is documented by Jeff Geerling

Are you familiar with a YouTuber named Jeff Geerling? He does some pretty far out stuff with pi’s like connecting video cards to them, etc. here’s a videoabout stuff you could do, I haven’t watched it myself. He’s got this website that has a list of accessories he’s tried with the pi. While I was looking for his channel I saw a ton of videos on YouTube for stuff to do with the pi. Curious to see what you end up doing… I guess I’m kinda hoping you do something that utilizes the full potential of the 4 😁

https://github.com/homebridge/docker-homebridge/wiki/Running-Homebridge-on-Firewalla-Gold

According to the description the file paths should always be "homebridge", so at the moment both instances would interfere with each other when they both run (only one runs atm)...however, I could try to setup another homebridge instance and link that to another "homebridge" path in a sub-folder and see if that works. I'll give it a try.

Or just spin up a Docker container either one will do nicely

One physical PC is my "management" server. It's on my trusted VLAN/network. It hosts my wifi controller, homebridge, and scrypted and watchtower.

I recommend using the compose template straight from the source, to avoid issues like this in the future https://github.com/oznu/docker-homebridge