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I use Home Assistant as my smart home hub, and I've even got it on a beefier mini-PC after it ate (a high quality) SD card. This is hundreds of currency more ex

I use Home Assistant as my smart home hub, and I've even got it on a beefier mini-PC after it ate (a high quality) SD card. This is hundreds of currency more expensive than a PI. But my main complaint is how high maintenance it is. I do think they've got a little bit better in the last 6 months, but it used to be there was a intentional deprecation and breaking change in nearly every major (i.e monthly) update. Updating requires carefully reading through the change logs. Then once you've fixed your configuration, that update might have fixed some bug you've been having only to introduce a new one. My installation spent the better part of the last 12 months with at least one annoying bug at any time.

Semaphor 4y ago
> This is hundreds of currency more expensive than a PI. I run it as VM on a tiny Proxmox < €100 server that also runs a bunch of other things. I’ve been using HA for several years now, I almost never have update issues, updating on every notification. I had a tiny incompatibility this major update that only made issues with once HACS component (community store, not tested by base HA). The last actual issue was some time mid 2022, and even that wasn’t major.
vladvasiliu 4y ago
> I've even got it on a beefier mini-PC after it ate (a high quality) SD card. This is hundreds of currency more expensive than a PI. Only if you buy new and get something much more powerful. I run HASS in a VM on an old small form-factor desktop they were going to throw away at work. The most expensive part of that PC (that I paid for) is the quad intel NIC that I use for my router VM. It can NAT + FW (pf) + VPN (wireguard) at gigabit speeds without breaking a sweat. This is an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 with an i5-6500 and 32 GB RAM. Similar boxen can be had off ebay for peanuts if you don't live in the boonies (or you'll have to pay for shipping). They may consume more than an RPI, but they are very quiet (I run it 24/7 in a studio apartment and am very sensitive to noise). They're also able to do much more than said pi, since they can use standard off-the-shelf components (regular DIMM RAM, regular SSDs, regular expansion cards, etc).

Semaphor 4y ago

> This is hundreds of currency more expensive than a PI. I run it as VM on a tiny Proxmox < €100 server that also runs a bunch of other things. I’ve been using HA for several years now, I almost never have update issues, updating on every notification. I had a tiny incompatibility this major update that only made issues with once HACS component (community store, not tested by base HA). The last actual issue was some time mid 2022, and even that wasn’t major.

vladvasiliu 4y ago

> I've even got it on a beefier mini-PC after it ate (a high quality) SD card. This is hundreds of currency more expensive than a PI. Only if you buy new and get something much more powerful. I run HASS in a VM on an old small form-factor desktop they were going to throw away at work. The most expensive part of that PC (that I paid for) is the quad intel NIC that I use for my router VM. It can NAT + FW (pf) + VPN (wireguard) at gigabit speeds without breaking a sweat. This is an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 with an i5-6500 and 32 GB RAM. Similar boxen can be had off ebay for peanuts if you don't live in the boonies (or you'll have to pay for shipping). They may consume more than an RPI, but they are very quiet (I run it 24/7 in a studio apartment and am very sensitive to noise). They're also able to do much more than said pi, since they can use standard off-the-shelf components (regular DIMM RAM, regular SSDs, regular expansion cards, etc).