October 3, 20214 yr What hardware do you all run home assistant on. Have read about people running it on a Raspberry PI but then have also read that this is not the most recomended long term solution. What does everyone here use?
October 3, 20214 yr PI4 with a whole stack of software. Long term its wonderful, been running a PI for a few years already, currently on a 4. It is reliable for me, I added some cooling and a metal case to help. Its very low power consumption in comparison to anything else. It runs Linux but that is easy and free. Not much else for the price that can do the work. One upgrade to do for sure, dump the sd card and get a small SSD drive, its much faster and easy to set up, and way way way more reliable and longer lasting than sd cards.
October 3, 20214 yr Author 3 hours ago, Sarel said: PI4 with a whole stack of software. Long term its wonderful, been running a PI for a few years already, currently on a 4. It is reliable for me, I added some cooling and a metal case to help. Its very low power consumption in comparison to anything else. It runs Linux but that is easy and free. Not much else for the price that can do the work. One upgrade to do for sure, dump the sd card and get a small SSD drive, its much faster and easy to set up, and way way way more reliable and longer lasting than sd cards. That sounds like a cool setup. Would you just follow the recomended installation method Raspberry Pi - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io) or is their a better/different approach used? How much ram does your Pi have? Edited October 3, 20214 yr by Basil Katakuzinos
October 3, 20214 yr Author 3 hours ago, Sarel said: PI4 with a whole stack of software. Long term its wonderful, been running a PI for a few years already, currently on a 4. It is reliable for me, I added some cooling and a metal case to help. Its very low power consumption in comparison to anything else. It runs Linux but that is easy and free. Not much else for the price that can do the work. One upgrade to do for sure, dump the sd card and get a small SSD drive, its much faster and easy to set up, and way way way more reliable and longer lasting than sd cards. Power consumption was a concern for me... i have a friend running it in a docker container on a linux vm.... i do not have a computer running 24/7 so this seemed like an ineficient implementation for myself.
October 3, 20214 yr There are a few ways to get this operational, the official ways here Install types official Then you have a few other ways. Like this one Iotstack and I based my install on this Iotstack but it get real involved real quick. Read, read again and then sleep on it before you repeat and only then do an install. Even then be prepared to wipe it and install again to get it properly functional. Backup backup backup, oh and test the backups hey….
October 3, 20214 yr Author 18 minutes ago, Sarel said: There are a few ways to get this operational, the official ways here Install types official Then you have a few other ways. Like this one Iotstack and I based my install on this Iotstack but it get real involved real quick. Read, read again and then sleep on it before you repeat and only then do an install. Even then be prepared to wipe it and install again to get it properly functional. Backup backup backup, oh and test the backups hey…. Gosh those videos hurt my brain... this looks like a fun project!
October 5, 20214 yr I run mine on an Intel i5 NUC running on a 256gb SSD, works like a charm and way faster than a Pi. Purchased of Facebook for R2k
October 5, 20214 yr Author 50 minutes ago, Sc00bs said: I run mine on an Intel i5 NUC running on a 256gb SSD, works like a charm and way faster than a Pi. Purchased of Facebook for R2k Does the speed make any noticable differences?
October 5, 20214 yr I have a NUC, several PIs and some other small form factor servers and the PI is just fine, so are the others. Run what you got, or spend the least amount to get running, whatever that may be.
October 31, 20214 yr On 2021/10/03 at 6:09 PM, Sarel said: PI4 with a whole stack of software. Long term its wonderful, been running a PI for a few years already, currently on a 4. It is reliable for me, I added some cooling and a metal case to help. Its very low power consumption in comparison to anything else. It runs Linux but that is easy and free. Not much else for the price that can do the work. One upgrade to do for sure, dump the sd card and get a small SSD drive, its much faster and easy to set up, and way way way more reliable and longer lasting than sd cards. What size Ram would you recommend on the Pi4 ? How is the SSD connected to the Pi ? Hope its not a silly question🤪
October 31, 20214 yr Pi3 with 2GB ram, Pi4 on 4GB ram and the ssd is on the Pi4 USB3 port, fast performance.
November 1, 20214 yr 9 hours ago, Sarel said: Pi3 with 2GB ram, Pi4 on 4GB ram and the ssd is on the Pi4 USB3 port, fast performance. Appreciate your response.
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