Jeff Geerling looks beyond Raspberry Pi with the AUX-2

His new smart-home hardware video accompanies a channel-wide view jump to more than thirteen times its usual daily pace.

Channel: Level 2 Jeff Story of November 13, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The whole channel is running at 292,214 views a day, 13 times a normal day (22,196).

I used to use a Raspberry Pi for this. Not anymore.

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A Raspberry Pi isn't automatically Jeff Geerling's answer anymore. His new Level 2 Jeff upload starts with the cost of the little computer, then turns to an ESP32-based alternative: the Home Assistant AUX-2.

Posted two days ago, "I used to use a Raspberry Pi for this. Not anymore." has already drawn more than 430,000 views. Its arrival coincides with a sharp jump in the channel's daily views, though that channel-wide increase cannot all be assigned to this upload.

The appeal here is a specific hardware question, not a farewell to Raspberry Pi altogether. Geerling introduces the AUX-2, examines its USB port for Z-Wave and Zigbee, and works through Matter support and the absence of Thread support before opening the box for a teardown. He lists its US price as $69.

That makes a fresh subject after the Ubiquiti air-quality monitor covered here earlier. The two videos do share a practical concern: what a small connected device offers for the money. This time, Geerling's starting point is whether the familiar Raspberry Pi is still the right tool for the job.

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