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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

At what point do you just go for Home Assistant green? It's still cheaper, yes it has less ram but also consumes less power.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If all you want is HA, it's perfectly fine to run on a RPi.

But personally I've grown to host about a dozen other services so the additional compute power, storage and memory is important.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I actually have a server for my other needs and HA Green. Mostly since I want to run the mission critical stuff for my home on a different machine, this way if something were to go wrong with my home server it'd still keep working.

I should add that bigger esphome projects (with custom components) take up to 5 minutes to compile. But that honestly isn't too bad.

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