• SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    At what point do you just go for Home Assistant green? It’s still cheaper, yes it has less ram but also consumes less power.

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        3 months ago

        I actually have a server for my other needs and HA Green. Mostly since I want to run the mission critical stuff for my home on a different machine, this way if something were to go wrong with my home server it’d still keep working.

        I should add that bigger esphome projects (with custom components) take up to 5 minutes to compile. But that honestly isn’t too bad.

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      3 months ago

      Good question. HA Green looks pretty cool. With that processor, though, running something like Frigate might not work very well.

      For me, I run HA on a normal computer that I turned into a “server”. Home Assistant was a gateway drug and now I run all sorts of other stuff in addition to it. I use Proxmox (as described in the article) so HA is a virtual machine, and there’s a Debian virtual machine with a bunch of Docker stuff going. Having Docker run in a VM makes backups much easier.

      For HA alone, the Green looks pretty cool. Most people probably won’t outgrown it, but I certainly have.

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      3 months ago

      If all you want is HA, green is the right answer.

      I got a mini PC the beginning of this year and I have a bunch of stuff running on it now, in Proxmox. It’s been a lot of complicated learning, but I’ve had fun.