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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)

submitted 2 days ago by Bongles@lemm.ee to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I have HA running as a native service on my home server, which is composed of literal garbage parts from other PCs, and runs many other native services in tandem, including Plex and some VPN gunk. HA has very low system demand, and it only makes sense to use a dedicated system for it if it's very low-powered and you have no other server in the home.

What you should do is set all of your services up on your new mini PC and use that to host all of your services, allowing you to power down your likely more power-hungry PC.