Hi I would like to get Home Assistant running and integrated with my solar installation. I would have liked to get the Home Assistant OS running on a Raspberry PI 4, but they seems as rear as a four leaf clover at the moment. In the Home Assistant documentation they mention installation on ODROID devices, I can find them on the website of a company called cyberconnect. I am specifically looking at the ODROID N2+. It's more expensive than the PI, but it's what I can find.

https://cyberconnect.shop/en_GB/shop/product/odroid-n2-550?category=17

Has anyone used cyberconnect? I can't find much about them. Also, any other ideas on devices that you have Home Assistant running on would be welcome.

Thanks!

>any other ideas on devices that you have Home Assistant running on would be welcome.
Try the RPI400 (if you can get on).

I look for boards that support recent version of operating systems - eg Debian, ArchLinux, Ubuntu (minimal), Armbian, OpenWrt, etc.
Android is mostly useless as a general purpose operating system for IoT/HA usage.

I run HA as a docker container which simplifies things (also run MQTT in a container).

You can run HAOS on any oldish machine, Rasp Pi is cute but a bit overrated, you need something with storage that will last longer than a SD card.

 

Currently I have a netbook from 2010 with an Atom processor and 2GB ram and spinning HDD running on a test site. 

Rasp Pi 4, with external SSD running on other site  

Oldish laptop with spinning Hdd (Very low power especially with screen off) running on another 

HAOS in a KVM on my server in 2GB ram (my own personal HAOS).  

Test server HAOS in another VM used for testing and restoring backups when making videos.

 

Let me know if you need help setting up an old machine.

 

 

I bought a Intel NUC off facebook marketplace, nothing special, a celeron with 4gig ram for R1000. Then bought a new 128gig SSD for it. Runs HAOS perfectly and far more powerful than a rpi.