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For those that are curious about the difference between Home Assistant Yellow and Home Assistant Green: Yellow is for power users. It supports any Raspberry Pi

For those that are curious about the difference between Home Assistant Yellow and Home Assistant Green: Yellow is for power users. It supports any Raspberry Pi CM4-pin style board (for the "brain" including CPU/RAM/networking), is ZigBee/Thread enabled, has a M.2 slot for a SSD or Google Coral and optionally supports PoE. Green has none of these things, you have to add on a ZigBee/Thread stick via USB. Green is made for new users to Home Assistant who probably already have a Phillips Hue or IKEA TRÅDFRI hub for their devices. Green was also created because since Yellow was made Raspberry Pi CM4 prices went sky high and there was other competition in the same, newer, price range. Yellow will still continue to be supported long term.

kkfx 3y ago
Honestly I do not understand why HA devs choose such absurd deploys, ok, they need to get some money, but HA is a monster due to it's design, a hell of YAML, a hell of dependencies and so on. Pretend that one need a pre-built OS to put more monsters in the game is frankly ridiculous. Curate a simpler pip install and offer small homeservers eventually, but reasonably specced to be a home server, not just the bare minimum to run slowly would be much more reasonable. If people really want useful IoT at home reliability is needed, playing with devices stacked one on another, usb toys and so on is a good recipe to made an unmaintainable pile of modern crap, unupgrade-able, unreliable crap. And HA is the less crappy in the game.