How To Install Home Assistant on a Mini PC - SmartHomeScene

Discover why a mini PC is the best hardware choice for a compact and efficient Home Assistant home server in this in-depth article and how-to guide.

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At what point do you just go for Home Assistant green? It's still cheaper, yes it has less ram but also consumes less power.
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  I actually have a server for my other needs and HA Green. Mostly since I want to run the mission critical stuff for my home on a different machine, this way if something were to go wrong with my home server it'd still keep working.
  
  I should add that bigger esphome projects (with custom components) take up to 5 minutes to compile. But that honestly isn't too bad.
- If all you want is HA, green is the right answer.
  
  I got a mini PC the beginning of this year and I have a bunch of stuff running on it now, in Proxmox. It's been a lot of complicated learning, but I've had fun.
- Good question. HA Green looks pretty cool. With that processor, though, running something like Frigate might not work very well.
  
  For me, I run HA on a normal computer that I turned into a "server". Home Assistant was a gateway drug and now I run all sorts of other stuff in addition to it. I use Proxmox (as described in the article) so HA is a virtual machine, and there's a Debian virtual machine with a bunch of Docker stuff going. Having Docker run in a VM makes backups much easier.
  
  For HA alone, the Green looks pretty cool. Most people probably won't outgrown it, but I certainly have.
Once this is edited, it'll be a great document.

But wow, maybe ask a friend to do it for ya.