Basil Katakuzinos Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sarel Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Katakuzinos Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by Basil Katakuzinos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Katakuzinos Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sarel Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 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…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Katakuzinos Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sc00bs Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Katakuzinos Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sarel Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sarel Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Pi3 with 2GB ram, Pi4 on 4GB ram and the ssd is on the Pi4 USB3 port, fast performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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