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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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[–] kaaskop@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm running it on a pi5. It was able to handle everything including voice easily although the voice thing out of the box is quite limited. I was able to do a lot with it through automations with custom commands though. It was pretty much able to replace my Google assistant system.

I've now upgraded it with ollama and Whisper on a network device (old laptop with i7 CPU and GTX1050 mobile GPU) and that works perfectly with llama3.2:3b. Pretty accurate and works well enough. Especially useful coupled with the local home assistant command processing since that by passes the LLM.