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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)

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've got a Lenovo m910q in my basement with home assistant running on docker. (Also on that machine is an overly large set of docker images doing other stuff. I wish I knew enough about docker compose when I set up home assistant, because that's the only server that will cause a bit of pain if it fails and I need to resurrect it. (I'll do it right next time... )

Partial list of services that PC has: home assistant, adguard, swag (reverse proxy), *arr stack(downloading files), calibre(book housing), jellyfin(movie and TV streaming), mealie(recipe management), habatica(habit fixing tool), homepage (to manage all the links and ports), and a 3 user Minecraft server. I only notice things going wrong when watching a movie AND playing Minecraft.

I tried setting up orcaslicer, but so far I hate it. (Hosted, it's not a pleasant experience)