Many viewers asked after my CM5 video whether Home Assistant Yellow (a local/private smart home hub I love!) works with CM5. The answer: emphatically YES! Another drop-in upgrade giving an instant 2-3x speed boost. More on my blog:

Jeff Geerling

Home Assistant Yellow - instant 2x IoT speedup with CM5

In a win for modular, private, local IoT, I just upgraded my Home Assistant Yellow from a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to a Compute Module 5 this ...

The Raspberry Pi CM5 changes EVERYTHING—except the form factor. I tested 4K eGPU gaming, upgrading my better-than-a-smart TV from a CM4, and even built a better Pi 5. Check out the video:

Arm is all grown up... ECC DDR5, PCIe Gen 5, socketed CPU, full UEFI, install Linux or Windows without any special images.

You know it's serious business when btop needs to fullscreen just to display all cores...

The M4 Mac mini's *RIDICULOUS* efficiency:

👀 this isn't the final form #arm #cinebench

For the price of an M4 Pro Mac mini ($1399), I could get: Pi 5 8GB ($80) microSD + power for Pi ($30) SFX PSU ($80) GPU Dock + Oculink adapter ($90) AMD RX 7900 XTX 24GB ($899) 160 Hz HD Gaming monitor ($99) Decent keyboard + mouse ($100) Just sayin'

Oh boy. I had clicked off MKBHD's latest video a minute in since I realized it was full sponsored and just hitting DJI talking points. But doing driving reckless for a short clip in a video is always wrong. Don't drive 60 over the limit. Not ever, esp for content.

Stable

I built a touchscreen controller for everything in my studio with Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi's new Touch Display 2. I also tested CarPlay support, here's the full video: