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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Creepy-Ad8688 on 2026-07-21 22:06:05+00:00.
Hi community,
Need your advice on how to proceed.
I got my hands on a minisforum m1 pro to replace my old intel NUC that currently host my home assistant running HAOS on bare betal. I run esphome with a lot of devices and takes some time to build, also now running scrypted and want to run frigate as well and perhaps small model LLM in ollama.
Initially I Just wanted to go bare metal route again and just install frigate and ollama inside HA as I’ve always done, but from what I can find while googleing there is a lot mentioning running proxmox on the mini pc instead and HAOS in a VM and then scrypted, frigate and ollama in their own containers on the side. Besides obvious better seperation and control is there another good reason to go the proxmox way instead of keeping bare metal HAOS?.
I have no experience with proxmox, but want to learn if it will make my setup so much better. I just love the simplicity of the current bare metal setup and let HA handle it.
What is your experience, what would you do in my case :)
Thanks.
EDIT:
Thank you so much for all the feedback. A good mix of both worlds I can see, and of course depending on different use cases. I am really happy with the current setup, been hosting HAOS for years and rock solid. But I am adding more and more stuff to it and I just wanted to future proff it a bit with a newer mini pc, also considering I wanted to play around with Frigate, LLM vision etc.
What got me started reading about if I should do another type of install is that I’ve read that passing the iGPU/NPU and driver setup for Frigate could be difficult on bare metal. But if I am running HAOS on proxmox I guess that would be the exact same issue just inside a vm. I want to keep the HAOS no matter what as it’s always worked best for me.
As several mentioned I could try and start by using proxmox and setup frigate etc and experiment while I still keep HA on my old NUC or even keep HA on the NUC after I migrate services over to the other one. I still need to read up some more or perhaps just try it out before making the right decision, right now I am just lucky I have a new machine to test on while HA lives on :)
Thanks again for all the ideas.