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Recommendation on running home assistant (lemm.ee)
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How do you guys run home assistant?

I tried out home assistant using virtual box on my main pc and I enjoyed what I could do with it so far. So, I ordered a mini pc (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C89TQ1YF/) with the intention of running home assistant's OS so that it's always running regardless of Windows doing what it wants with my PC.

I run other things all the time on my main pc too, plex, isponsorblocktv, tartube, things like that. Is running just home assistant on that mini pc going to be overkill? Should I just put Linux on it and run home assistant on there some other way so that I can also run some of these other things there? Will home assistant take a noticeable performance hit?

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

RasPi 4B with the dedicated HassOS distro.

Installation was easy. Upgrades run regularly and very stable.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same here. Never any noticeable performance issues. I’m happy with this choice, given low cost, energy efficiency, stability. I also like that I can dedicate the hardware to HA, whereas I’d be tempted to share if I had a more capable box

However I only have a couple dozen devices and don’t attempt to run anything intensive like voice processing, image recognition, or any sort of media streaming.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago

This, but with the asterisk of Bluetooth sometimes not recovering gracefully from soft updates