Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended?

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just be careful with SD cards if you’re using SBCs. Home Assistant does a lot of writing and if your SD card can’t handle repeated writes you may suddenly lose everything. Keep backups to another device and have a replacement SD card ready if extended downtime is going to be a problem for you.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Always run mine in a VM along with everything else, no need for special hardware.

    Get yourself a PoE Zigbee and/or Z-wave receiver and you are good to go, can even live migrate HA if you are fancy

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Booting from USB drives has worked well for me

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Adding to this, I recommend a used mini PC. There’s lots of cheap used office hardware out there on eBay that is more powerful, more serviceable, and more flexible than the hardware they sell or a raspberry pi.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Companies are throwing away old hardware (like 8th/9th gen Core i5) that’s perfect for running Home Assistant. See if there’s an e-waste recycler near you - they might let you buy an old system for a nominal fee.

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While there are some problems with used minipcs (notably drivers), i don’t think they are relevant if it is only going to be used as a Home Assistant

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    • Trilogy3452@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a good point. This can help me with things like adding a DNS server (I’m assuming pi-hole can be run standalone on a mini PC)

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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I bought a used mini PC and then set up Proxmox. This little thing is a lot more capable than the Raspberry I used before and it runs my complete home lab, excluding my NAS.

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      • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you’re going to run Home Assistant OS you’d be able to run anything that can run in docker. Some things are available to install directly inside the Home Assistant apps system, otherwise you can install portainer and run any docker capable software.

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