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I think a Pi is great to start with. Then you graduate to a real computer when your HA gets too big and laggy for the Pi to keep up with. I use a NUC. But my
by rootusrootus 5y ago
I think a Pi is great to start with. Then you graduate to a real computer when your HA gets too big and laggy for the Pi to keep up with. I use a NUC. But my brother repurposed an old laptop with good results (built in UPS, and quiet!).
- nomel 5y agoAt what point does HA get too laggy? Are you doing audio/video transcoding?
- rootusrootus 5y agoNope, nothing heavy like that. I don't know what the threshold is for every use case, but for me once I got more than maybe 50 devices, HA started to struggle on the Pi. The NUC is lightning fast, however, and I've grown my HA considerably since. Plus it's nice to be able to run ESXi on the NUC and have VMs for other things too, e.g. Grafana, etc.
- nomel 5y agoDid you try changing the CPU governor settings? I've found that light workloads don't always push the governor enough to push the CPU into higher frequencies. I have mine set to 100% CPU, always, for lowest latency. See: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/191 https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/19...