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Recomend a Mini PC to host home assistant on (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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  • must not add insane amounts of cost to my power bill
  • Has to be upgradable if I need to add upgrades to the hardware in the future
  • Has a speaker
  • may want to possibly also set up node red but it depends on if I need it or not because I may just be fine with home assistants automation
  • has to have wireless connectivity
  • mainly setting this up to add automation around my reolink cameras linked through the reolink home hub for example getting a second camera in the same area to start recording when one detects motion or link other smart home security products like sirens or floodlights
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I grabbed a cheap Dell Wyze from eBay, then stuck proxmox on it, then Home Assistant in a VM. Works beautifully, plus I can run other VMs and containers. Plus snapshots etc. It runs at 5w idle and 15w under load.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @the_boxhead @x4740N Are you running all your apps independently on Proxmox or are you using a framework to bring them together? (Like #Yunohost or #coopcloud) - I have been running Yunohost on a VPS but moving to #Proxmox on DellMini - I am still getting my head around Proxmox but like the idea of knitting apps like HomeAssistant, Nextcloud etc with LDAP/Oauth, Email, DNS and ReverseProxy, Backup - all the underlying stuff that keeps your environment running.

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