You can connect an SSD to these boards and boot from that instead of an SD card. Definitely the way to go especially considering SSDs dont really cost more than SD cards.
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i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoJust 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.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
4am@lemmy.zip 1 month 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
white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 month ago
I run mine in a VM but have USB passthrough for the Zwave and zigbee sticks. I didn’t know there were POE coordinators. Do you have any you recommend? I use both zwave and zigbee
speculate7383@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I haven’t tried it yet, but I see the SMLIGHT SLZB06 get recommended a lot for Zigbee
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Booting from USB drives has worked well for me