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

Seems a good deal and certainly power efficient.

Before on a rPi 4...now in a VM on a refurb mini PC and changed memory to 32GB and 2 TB of storage. My PC might be twice as fast as the Beelink on paper but draws 10 x more power. I guess the config of the VM really matters most.