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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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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I personally run it on a MiniPC that runs proxmox. You could run other stuff on it through proxmox as well. I would definitely recommend running always on server stuff on something other than your main daily PC.

You could probably run all the other stuff on there as well, although transcoding might slow things down a bit. HA itself should be fine as once you've set up all your automations it's not like you need to interact with it directly and you'll just get a little bit of lag at worst.