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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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How To Install Home Assistant on a Mini PC - SmartHomeScene (smarthomescene.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I totally understand mission critical motivations, but I reached a different conclusion from you. I’ve been HA’ing for a long time and everything dies eventually.

Do you have a backup HA green in the cupboard? my wife would murder me if I couldn’t get the house back in 24 hours. I want to use hardware that you can buy literally anywhere so I don’t need to keep a backup.

I’m not there yet, but I havve moved to running HA on a proxmox server and have used my HA backup to recover from a software failure. I’m now thinking about what the same would look like for a hardware failure, either the mini pc or the zigbee dongle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If all you want is HA, green is the right answer.

I got a mini PC the beginning of this year and I have a bunch of stuff running on it now, in Proxmox. It's been a lot of complicated learning, but I've had fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Good question. HA Green looks pretty cool. With that processor, though, running something like Frigate might not work very well.

For me, I run HA on a normal computer that I turned into a "server". Home Assistant was a gateway drug and now I run all sorts of other stuff in addition to it. I use Proxmox (as described in the article) so HA is a virtual machine, and there's a Debian virtual machine with a bunch of Docker stuff going. Having Docker run in a VM makes backups much easier.

For HA alone, the Green looks pretty cool. Most people probably won't outgrown it, but I certainly have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Once this is edited, it'll be a great document.

But wow, maybe ask a friend to do it for ya.